He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Kill the king but spare the man.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant...
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not bel...
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.