Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!