We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

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 unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

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

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation itself which none but an Almighty Power could make? For the Bible says one thing; and the creation says the contrary. The Bible represents God with all the passions of a mortal, and the creation proclaims him with all the attributes of a God.