He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. 
 

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Every generation needs a new revolution. 

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.