Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!

I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world... if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Show more interest in their story than your own.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

To read too many books is harmful.

When you've got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.