It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.