Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.