The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.