Leave the matter of religion to the family, the altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions.
Keep the church and state forever separate.
--Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
-Anon

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then, we elected them.
-Lily Tomlin, comedienne

"If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace."

" I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature.....Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned.
What has been the effect of this coercion?
To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world. "
- Thomas Jefferson

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
-- Edward R. Murrow

"Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering."
- Richard Dawkins

"We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so."
- Richard Dawkins, Free Inquiry, Summer, 2002