General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my…

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the…

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they d…

To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit-General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess

The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid. But one should never close …