An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.