"Si homines res omnes suas certo consilio regere possent, vel si fortuna ipsis prospera semper foret, nulla superstiti…"

"As the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but…"

"If, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, whic…"

"Wholly repugnant to the general freedom are such devices as enthralling men's minds with prejudices, forcing their ju…"

"Seeing that we have the rare happiness of living in a republic, where everyone's judgment is free and unshackled, whe…"

"Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices—aye, prejudices too, which degrade man from rational bei…"

"The authority of the prophets has weight only in matters of morality, and... their speculative doctrines affect us li…"

"I show that the Word of God has not been revealed as a certain number of books, but was displayed to the prophets as …"

"As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one…"

"In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects cho…"