An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .