An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

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

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a man impressed as fully and strongly as he ought to be with the belief of a God, his moral life would be regulated by the force of belief; he would stand in awe of God and of himself, and would not do the thing that could not be concealed from either.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.