Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.
Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Kill the king but spare the man.
A government of our own is our natural right.
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.
Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.