It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.