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

- Adam Weishaupt

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

- Adam Weishaupt

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…

- Adam Weishaupt

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…

- Adam Weishaupt

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 …

- Adam Weishaupt

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…

- Adam Weishaupt

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

- Adam Weishaupt

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

- Adam Weishaupt

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…

- Adam Weishaupt