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What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
There is no more perfect picture on the earth, or within the imagination of man, than a mother holding in her thrilled and happy arms a child, the fruit of love.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers; it is the only prayer that deserves an answer, — good, honest, noble work.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
I want to say right here — many a man has cursed the God of another man.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
As long as the church has the power to close the lips of men, so long and no longer will superstition rule this world.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Blasphemy is the word that the majority hisses into the ear of the few.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
By force you can make hypocrites -- men who will agree with you from the teeth out, and in their hearts hate you. We want no more hypocrites.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Any man that does not give to everybody else the rights he claims for himself, is not an honest man.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
The grandest of all things is to be in the highest and noblest sense a man.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes — more important than gold or houses or lands — more important than art or science — more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
If that statute had been enforced, that science would not now be the property of the human mind. That science is contrary to the Bible, and for asserting the truth you become a criminal.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Blasphemy is the bulwark of religious prejudice.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Anything that can be laughed out of this world ought not to stay in it.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)