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The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I’m beginning to believe it.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.