So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

God created woman to tame man.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.