"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."

"I find that the love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."