Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. Reading, writing, thinking and investigating have all been crimes. Every science has been an outcast. All the altars and all the thrones united to arrest the forward march of the human race. The king said that mankind must not work for themselves. The priest said that mankind must not think for themselves. One forged chains for the hands, the other for the soul.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, toget…

Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him? The man who ask…

By this time the whole world should know that the real Bible has not yet been written, but is being written, and that it will never be finished until the race …

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Do not block the way of inquiry.