For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.