No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

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.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

Get past the hard-on, and you could feel him. I mean really feel him.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.

Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.