Ignorance Is Preferable To Error, And He

Civil Government Being The Sole Object Of Forming Societies, Its Administration Must Be Conducted By Common Consent.

Nothing Is More Certainly Written In The Book Of Fate Than That These People Are To Be Free.

What Has Been The Effect Of Coercion? To Make One Half The World Fools, And The Other Half Hypocrites. To Support Roguery And Error All Over The Earth.... [instead] Reason And Persuasion Are The Only Practicable Instruments. To Make Way For These, Free Enquiry Must Be Indulged; And How Can We Wish Others To Indulge It While We Refuse It Ourselves?

I Could Say Much About Politics, Our Only Entertainment Here, But You Would Not Care A Fig About That.

The Fortune Of Our Lives Depends On Employing Well The Short Period Of Our Youth.