Occupation: Political Figure Birth: September 26, 1833 Death: January 30, 1891
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and ….
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper w….
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 w….
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour..
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation..
The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race..
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind..
The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name o….