I Don't Believe In God Because I

If A Man Really Has Charge Of His Destiny At All, He Should Have Something To Say About Getting Born; And I Only Came Through By A Hair's-breadth. What Had I To Do With This Momentous First Step? In The Language Of The Lawyer, I Was Not Even A Party Of The Second Part.

We Are Born And We Die; And Between These Two Most Important Events In Our Lives More Or Less Time Elapses Which We Have To Waste Somehow Or Other. In The End It Does Not Seem To Matter Much Whether We Have Done So In Making Money, Or Practicing Law, Or Reading Or Playing, Or In Any Other Way, As Long As We Felt We Were Deriving A Maximum Of Happiness Out Of Our Doings.

It Is Bigotry For Public Schools To Teach Only One Theory Of Origins.

Calvin Coolidge Was The Greatest Man Who Ever Came Out Of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

The Lowest Standards Of Ethics Of Which A Right-thinking Man Can Possibly Conceive Is Taught To The Common Soldier Whose Trade Is To Shoot His Fellow Men. In Youth He May Have Learned The Command, 'thou Shalt Not Kill,' But The Ruler Takes The Boy Just As He Enters Manhood And Teaches Him That His Highest Duty Is To Shoot A Bullet Through His Neighbor's Heart - And This, Unmoved By Passion Or Feeling Or Hatred, And Without The Least Regard To Right Or Wrong, But Simply Because His Ruler Gives The Word.