Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
Charles BradlaughIs it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
Charles BradlaughThe ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.
Charles BradlaughI cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
Charles BradlaughThe atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.
Charles Bradlaugh