I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.