When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.