"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

"I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools."

"Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government."

"It is not the country that makes the man, but the man that makes the country."

"The greatest part of the world are born to poverty and wretchedness, not for want of abilities in themselves, but from the want of opportunities to exert them."