If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence