"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."

"The vanity of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies."

"The strength of a nation dependeth not on the number of its inhabitants but on the spirit that animates them."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun."