Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

All authority belongs to the people.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.