"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide what they fear to show."

"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."

"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"I have spent my time in writing, and have not been a man of action."