The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.