Favorite Quotations

Favorite Quotations, in no particular order:

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
-James Madison, 4th President of the United States

"Fix reason firmly in her seat; question everything with boldness; even the existence of God. Do not be frightened from inquiry or from its potential consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others in which it [virtue] will procure for you.
-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

"Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him (treat others the way you would want to be treated)".
-Pittacus, 620 BCE

"St. Augustine wrote that torture was acceptable as a sanction for breaking the laws of man and God. Hitler was never excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, but Galileo was. Although Galileo was lifted, Hitler was never given the boot, to this day.
-Sean Faircloth, Attack of the Theocrats (2012)

"When considering the sagacity of the Founders of our country, remember that, in this century, women have been stripped, raped, set on fire, and piked in the name of religion.

-Sean Faircloth, Attack of the Theocrats (2012)

"It would be better if the school day began with the reading of the Bill of Rights rather than the Bible"
-Martin Luther King Jr.


"If you want entrance into our parochial school, leave your Constitutional rights at the door, or leave."
-Catholic Nun, 2009


"The separation of church and state is absolute, where every man has the same right to attend his church of choice or to not to. Religion shall not, and will not, be endorsed by the government and will receive zero tax dollars."
-John F Kennedy

"If God exists, he is a malignant thug."
-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

"The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation"
-Cady Stanton


"The bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I can never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

"The experiments of Benjamin Franklin [lightning rod] are sacrilegious and in defiance of God's ability to smite whosoever he chooses."
-Roman Catholic Church, Various Clergy, ~1740