Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve