What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.