Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.