Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.