To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.