philosophy Quotes

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.