When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism..

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius..

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons..

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth..

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people..

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the na….

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'.

It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred re….

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed..

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . ..

Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the cr….

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief..

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are dest….

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake..

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves..

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that….

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had p….

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the….

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the….

All religion is slavery..