Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. - Lord Acton

Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book? — Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket", Senaca

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyoergi

The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooist brutality, is patently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with the dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes. - John Adams

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles. - John Adams

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -- Sir Richard Steele

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." -- Paul Harvey

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Do give books... for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." -- Lenore Hershey

"As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something." -- Hagar the Horrible

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." -- Cyril Connolly

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something
to be happy." -- Mahatma Gandhi