Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.