There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. I….

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had….

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power..

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of ….

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohamm….

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book..

The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sy….

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to h….

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my indivi….

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of ….

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that w….

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were milli….

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shor….

[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing t….

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds o….

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man..

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions..

It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only parti….

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's stor….

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anon….

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. ….