The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.