Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

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.

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

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

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.