"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"The strength of a nation dependeth not on the number of its inhabitants but on the spirit that animates them."

"Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by…"

"Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"It [hereditary succession] appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. It reverses the wholesome order of nature. …"