Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: "Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy."

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.