The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home and these are ignorance superstition and incompetence.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane intolerable.

If you do not accuse each other God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition and I will break it down.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Humanity has the stars in its future and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion crime busing and the school curriculum.