Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.