I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet..

Liberty's chief foe is theology..

A mere society form of Atheism..

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid..

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound ….

Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness o….

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, an….

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech..

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God..

Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate ….

Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal tormen….

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providenc….

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral..

A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is ….

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion..

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and….

God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil….

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made..

On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was ….

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the wou….

The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced an….