The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope..

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom..

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient..

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty..

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts..

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced..

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved..

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests..

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his cre….

Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American….

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced..

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both o….

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism..

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and….

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour..

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough..

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work..

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man..

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul..