The cold neutrality of an impartial judge

Parties in religion and politics make sufficient discoveries concerning each other, to give a sober man a proper caution against them all.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

I need not excuse myself to your Lordship, nor, I think, to any honest man, for the zeal I have shown in this cause; for it is an honest zeal, and in a good cause. I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and …

In vain you tell me that artificial government is good, but that I fall out only with the abuse. The thing! the thing itself is the abuse!

These few have the passions of the one; and they unite to strengthen themselves, and to secure the gratification of their lawless passions at the expense of the general good.