Charles Bradlaugh

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

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

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

“Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says 'I know not what you mean by God. I am without the idea of God. The word God to me is a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. I do not deny God, because I cannot deny that of which I have no conception, and the conception of which by its affirmer is so imperfect that he is unable to define it for me.”

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