When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Religion is collective insanity.