The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.