"I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men"

"Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation."

"The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future"

"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."

"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous"

"There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor"

"The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels"

"If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce"

"I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity"

"He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong"

"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead"

"If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man"

"I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations"

"According to this account the promise of the devil was fulfilled to the very letter, Adam and Eve did not die, and they did become as gods, knowing good and evil"

"An honest God is the noblest work of man."

"Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them."

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm."

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind"

"Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty"

"It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god"

"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself"

"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."

"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast"

"Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin"

"I found that the clergy did not understand their own book"

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense"

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

"It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions"

"Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed"

"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."

"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."

"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."

"I know his optimism is quite good."

"Typically, we do not have fences on our property. Usually, responsibility for maintenance of these fences is that of the property owner."

"Crews worked throughout the night. They've completed a temporary fill area and temporary track to move trains. They will start building a bridge to replace the one destroyed by fire. They should have the bridge completed by midweek."

"UP is in favor of the concept because FRA rules created a consistent program for communities to create the zones."

"I have to sacrifice for both sides. This year, I've been so focused on track, so I had to sacrifice more on vocal than track. (Track) is what I intend to do in college. It's been a nice balance this year. No events running into each other or anything. I've had a very joyous year."

"The one question that comes to our mind is how will the merger be viewed by rail shippers overall,"

"The positives of the expansion are many. Expanding the ICU and ED is vital in terms of adding necessary space, enhancing patient privacy and improving efficiency and quality of health care delivery."

"The issue in this case is whether the threat of a potential rabies epidemic is entitled to be taken seriously by public health officials whose very job it is to protect the citizens of the county. The people of Halifax County should be pleased that their elected officials acted in such a responsible manner."

"We've just got to get back to work. We've got two weeks before it counts for real. We just need time on the practice field to work on the little things and get them right."