All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected