"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

"Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government."

"The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself."

"It is impossible for us to suppose that a God, who is just, can be the author of a religion which is not just."

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."