In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.