Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.