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

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.