“In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.”

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint

The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,

These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.

None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry

And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.