"Old establishments are tried by their effects. If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the government under which they are found to be good."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman."