The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

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.