To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

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

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.