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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. I believe in liberty, equality and love.

It certainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything ...

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

Theology is a superstition - Humanity a religion.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

The instant we admit that a book is too sacred to be doubted , or even reasoned about , we are mental serfs.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without
brain.

The ages of muscle and miracle - of fists and faith - are passing away.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Logic is the necessary product of intelligence and sincerity. It cannot be learned. It is the child of a clear head and a good heart.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.

He bade the slave ships speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

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

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

We rise by lifting others.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The people were taught that the record was inspired, and therefore true. They were not taught that it was true, and therefore inspired.

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

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

I want to see a good miracle. I want to see a man with one
leg, and then I want to see the other leg grow out.

It is far cheaper to build schoolhouses than prisons, and it is much better to have scholars than convicts.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Superstition is the child of ignorance and fear.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument.

If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.

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