He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

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

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.