Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Titles do not count with posterity.