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.

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

I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

The more we bestow the richer we become.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.