We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport..

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ou….

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition..

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state..

There never was a good knife made of bad steel..

There is no gains without pain..

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian..

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed..

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world..

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself..

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one..

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both..

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running..

No nation has ever been ruined by trade..

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you..

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly..

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes..

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read..

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges..