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Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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.
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Virtue is not hereditary.
My mind is my own church.
Science is the true theology.
Government is a necessary evil
War ought to be no man's wish.
Kill the king but spare the man.
Public credit is suspicion asleep.
Titles do not count with posterity.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day
Prophesying is lying professionally.
Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.
Time makes more converts than reason.
My country is wherever liberty lives.
Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.
Government is best which governs least
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
The birthday of a new world is at hand.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The more we bestow the richer we become.
These are the days that try man's heart.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
These are the times that try men's souls.
I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.
Man must go back to nature for information.
The balance of power is the scale of peace.
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
A government of our own is our natural right
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.
Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
Men should not petition for rights, but take them
The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.
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