When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes