“Reason is the only legislator and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform.”
“Man, when he surrenders his reason and becomes the partisan of implicit faith and passing obedience, is the most mischievous of all animals.”
“Of all the principles of justice there is none so material to the moral rectitude of mankind as this — that no man can be distinguished but by his personal merit.”
— William Godwin, from Political Justice