They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more than all the theologians dead? Being a perfectly modest man I say I think I do. Now we have come to the conclusion that every man has a right to think. 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.

The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dus…

Churches are becoming political organizations... It probably will not be long until the churches will divide as sharply upon political, as upon theological que…

Such things had occasionally been said by some political enthusiast in the olden time, but, for the first time in the history of the world, the representatives…

When the churches literally ruled society, the human drama encompassed: (a) slavery; (b) the cruel subjection of women; (c) the most savage forms of legal puni…

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Think for yourself and question authority.