[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.