1. “No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.”
2. “It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.”
3. “As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.”
4. “There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.”
5. “Reputation is the road to power.”
6. “Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”
7. “The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”
8. “Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.”
9. “Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”
10. “Every law is an infraction of liberty.”
11. “Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.”
12. “Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”
13. “Tyranny and Anarchy are never far apart.”
14. “The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.”
15. “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
