Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press,
is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"The Tenth Commandment sends a message
to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness,
to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 --
to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed.
And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"All national institutions of churches,
whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish,
appear to me no other than human inventions
set up to terrify and enslave mankind,
and monopolize power and profit."

~ Thomas Paine  

"The history of Christianity has been largely written in blood, the
blood of those whom it has sought to proselytize as well as that of those
Christians who did not share the theology or ambitions of the male clerical
oligarchy that has always wielded power in Christendom. This ignoble
distinction is not nor has it ever been the exclusive prerogative of any
particular denomination or sect; it is a living legacy of horror that is
tragically common to the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox
bodies of Christian churches."

~ John J. Dunphy  

"...this monkey mythology of Darwin is the cause of permissiveness, promiscuity, prophylactics, perversions, pregnancies, abortions, pornotherapy, pollution, poisoning and proliferation of crimes of all types."

~ Judge Braswell Dean  

"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one
who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"Heathen, n. A benighten creature who has the folly
to worship something that he can see and feel."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"Forms of expression always appear turgid to those
who do not share the emotions they represent."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events,
the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side
of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him
neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an
independent cause of natural events. To be sure, the doctrine of a
personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in
the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in
those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set
foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the
representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal.
For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but
only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with
incalculable harm to human progress. In their struggle for the ethical
good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine
of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which
in the past placed such vast powers in the hands of priests. In their
labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are
capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity
itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more
worthy task."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Religious liberty is primarily a man’s liberty
to profess a faith different from that of the dominant religion,
and to unite in public worship with those who share his faith."

~ Giovanni Miegge  

"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel  

"Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to
whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot
be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education
connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by
taxpayers' money."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt  

"No power of government ought to be employed
in the endeavor to establish any system or
article of belief on the subject of religion."

~ Jeremy Bentham  

"The government must pursue a course
of complete neutrality toward religion."

~ Justice John Paul Stevens