I think the first duty of society is justice.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.