To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.