"In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?"
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"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."
"As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like."
"We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'."
"There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not."
"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."
"Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line."
"I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children."
"The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave."
"The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material."
"Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not."
"Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire."
"I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God."
"My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it."
"I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason."
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade."
"Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today."
"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
"I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor."
"There are no atheist in foxholes."