There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

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

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.