There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove that there aren't any so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations from the state down to the village garden club end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

In science a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity whereas in religion having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri and will be again.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

Be your own politics grow your own garden and maybe you can help out more.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.