The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

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.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.