If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he pers….

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed..

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself..

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough..

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak..

The more liberty you give away the more you will have..

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men..

No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, ….

The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idle….

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as t….

There is no slavery but ignorance..

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty..

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the….

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work..

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense..

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian inv….

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves..

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The ….

Commerce is the great civilizer..

Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of the family-the love of hus….

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his chil….