I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
