I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

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