No Iconoclast Can Possibly Escape The Severest

If Today You Can Take A Thing Like Evolution And Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Public School, Tomorrow You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Private Schools, And The Next Year You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It To The Hustings Or In The Church. At The Next Session You May Ban Books And Newspapers. Soon You May Set Catholic Against Protestant And Protestant Against Protestant, And Try To Foist Your Own Religion Upon The Minds Of Men.

It Is Not For The World To Judge, But To Crown Them All Alike. Each And All Lived Out Their Own Being, Did Their Work In Their Own Way, And Carried A Reluctant, Stupid Humanity To Greater Possibilities And Grander Heights.

Chase After The Truth Like All Hell And You'll Free Yourself, Even Though You Never Touch Its Coat Tails.

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.

It Is Indeed Strange That With All The Knowledge We Have Gained In The Past Hundred Years We Preserve And Practice The Methods Of An Ancient And Barbarous World In Our Dealing With Crime. So Long As This Is Observed And Exercised There Can Be No Change Except To Heap More Cruelties And More Wretchedness Upon Those Who Are The Victims Of Our Foolish System.