The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true..

Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, ju….

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying..

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars..

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned..

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you….

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such….

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles..

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, fill….

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be ….

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that hav….

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility..

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves..

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-w….

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate..

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member o….

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them..

If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hun….

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered..

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds..

I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects ….