Occupation: Lawyer Birth: August 11, 1833 Death: July 21, 1899
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery..
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the….
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know..
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!.
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becom….
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god..
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others..
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on wh….
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction..
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate..
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice..
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other thi….
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the….
I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children..
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give..
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed ….
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the hear….
Courage without conscience is a wild beast..
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imper….
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors..
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not..