No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little… — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image