What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.