The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.