[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

The 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.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

Is 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?

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.