Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.