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.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.