Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

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.

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

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

Liberty is the breath of progress.