Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.