“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642) Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. Source Reference Famous…

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” Robert G. Ingersoll, (1833-1899) American lawyer, Civil War veteran, political leader, orator of United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, nicknamed “The Great Agnostic”. Source Reference Robert G. Ingersoll Quote

“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.” Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, lawyer. Source Reference Wendell Phillips Quote

“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy…

“Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.” Pierre Corneille, (1606-1684) French playwright, known as the “founder of French tragedy”. Source: Horace (1639), Act II, sc. viii. Source Reference Pierre Corneille Quote

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: Summary View…

“All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter…

“Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, “Seneca the Younger.” Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter…

“Remember this, if you can. There is nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you have not. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the…

“Every man – in the development of his own personality – has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s…

“Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.” John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848) 6th US President. Source: Letter, 1823. Source Reference John Quincy Adams Quote

“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1895) Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer. Source: most likely a paraphrase of “that game of consequences to which we all sit down” from ‘Old Mortality.’…