"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom."

"A nation has not to seek for a government, but to form one."

"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."

"He that is not a patriot, if he has the soul of a man, must be a traitor."

"I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools."