One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.