Liberty's Chief Foe Is Theology.

I Know Not What You Mean By God; The Word God Is To Me A Sound Conveying No Clear Or Distinct Affirmation.

Is Poverty Of Spirit The Chief Amongst Virtues, That Jesus Gives It Prime Place In His Teachings? Is It Even A Virtue At All? Surely Not. Manliness Of Spirit, Honesty Of Spirit, Fullness Of Rightful Purpose, These Are Virtues; Poverty Of Spirit Is A Crime.

If When I Am Libelled I Take No Notice, The World Believes The Libel. If I Sue, I Have To Pay About One Hundred Pounds' Costs For The Privilege, And Gain The Smallest Coin The Country Knows For Recompense.

Without Free Speech No Search For Truth Is Possible; Without Free Speech No Discovery Of Truth Is Useful.

The Ameliorating March Of The Last Few Centuries Has Been Initiated By The Heretics Of Each Age, Though I Concede That The Men And Women Denounced And Persecuted As Infidels By The Pious Of One Century Are Frequently Claimed As Saints By The Pious Of A Later Generation.