It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy… to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous… let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.