Most Fools Think They Are Only Ignorant.

Let Every Fart Count As A Peal Of Thunder For Liberty. Let Every Fart Remind The Nation Of How Much It Has Let Pass Out Of Its Control. It Is A Small Gesture, But One That Can Be Very Effective - Especially In A Large Crowd. So Fart, And If You Must, Fart Often. But Always Fart Without Apology. Fart For Freedom, Fart For Liberty - And Fart Proudly.

My Dear Friend, Do Not Imagine That I Am Vain Enough To Ascribe Our Success [revolution] To Any Superiority . . . If It Had Not Been For The Justice Of Our Cause, And The Consequent Interposition Of Providence, In Which We Had Faith, We Must Have Been Ruined. If I Had Ever Before Been An Atheist, I Should Now Have Been Convinced Of The Being And Government Of A Deity!

Man Is A Tool-making Animal

Taxes Are Indeed Very Heavy - We Are Taxed Twice As Much By Our Idleness. Three Times As Much By Our Pride. And Four Times As Much By Our Folly.

If Any Form Of Government Is Capable Of Making A Nation Happy, Ours I Think Bids Fair Now For Producing That Effect. But After All Much Depends Upon The People Who Are Governed.