Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

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

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is to be forever blest' - if he had only said that, there would probably have been but little persecution.