The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.