No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of Church or State solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.
Although we live in what is called a free government,—and politically we are free,—there is but little religious liberty in America.
According to orthodox logic, God having furnished us with imperfect minds, has a right to demand a perfect result.
Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
When women reason, and babes sit in the lap of philosophy, the victory of reason over the shadowy host of darkness will be complete.
Of all the religions that have been produced by the egotism, the malice, the ignorance and ambition of man, Presbyterianism is the most hideous.
And what man who really thinks can help repeating the words of Ennius: "If there are gods they certainly pay no attention to the affairs of man."
Events, like the pendulum of a clock have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on. Man is growing grander.
In spite of Church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart.
I was taught to hate Catholicism with every drop of my blood, it is only justice to say, that in all essential particulars it is precisely the same as every other religion.