“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract”
“Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's”
Mark Twain
“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived”
Oscar Wilde
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