When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

We never live

If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too.

People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.

I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

Your best days are still out in front of you

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?