All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Meekness is the mask of malice.

If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.