If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or….

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati..

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults..

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

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools..

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery..

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

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

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of la….

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescensi….

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of re….

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves i….

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

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men..

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion..

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The h….

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyrann….

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness ….

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

Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace….

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper ….