Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

A mere society form of Atheism.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.