From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

Government is a necessary evil

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.