It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

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

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected