Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

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