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

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government

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

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.