Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.