Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.