I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.