Quotes from Charles Bradlaugh

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.