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"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags
in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and
brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's
benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others
most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest
expansion of the human mind." --Thomas
Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 1801.
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"If ever this vast country is brought under a single
government, it will be one of the most extensive
corruption, indifferent and incapable of a
wholesome care over so wide a spread of
surface." --Thomas Jefferson to William T. Barry,
1822. ME 15:389
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"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no
weapon in the arsenals of the world is so
formidable as the will and moral courage of free
men and women." Ronald Reagan
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"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure
when we have removed their only firm basis, a
conviction in the minds of the people that these
liberties are of the gift of God? --Thomas
Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
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"It is error alone which needs the support of
government. Truth can stand by itself." --Thomas
Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. ME
2:222
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"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to
escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."
Ronald Reagan
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"Self-love... is the sole antagonist of virtue,
leading us constantly by our propensities to
self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to
others. Accordingly, it is against this enemy that
are erected the batteries of moralists and
religionists, as the only obstacle to the practice of
morality. Take from man his selfish propensities,
practice of virtue. Or subdue those propensities
by education, instruction or restraint, and virtue
remains without a competitor." --Thomas
Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:140
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"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we
have this consolation with us, that the harder the
conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
-- Thomas Paine, 1776
"What can theistic Sunday School, meeting for an
hour once a week, do to stem the tide of a five day
program of humanistic thinking?" Charles
Francis Potter, signer of the Humanist Manifesto
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"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's
someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how
do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone
who understands Marx and Lenin." Ronald
Reagan
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