List of Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

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?

A Mere Society Form Of Atheism.

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

Idle And Meaningless ... A Form Less Solemn To Me Than The Affirmation I Would Have Reverently Made.

Probably They Had Good Reason For Omitting It. A Profane Mind Might Make A Jest Of An Apostle Half Seas Over, And Ridicule An Apostolic Gate-keeper Who Couldn't Keep His Head Above Water.

If Special Honor Is Claimed For Any, Then Heresy Should Have It As The Truest Servitor Of Human Kind.

The House, Being Strong, Should Be Generous ... But The Constituents Have A Right To More Than Generosity.... The Law Gives Me My Seat. In The Name Of The Law I Ask For It. I Regret That My Personality Overshadows The Principles Involved In This Great Struggle; But I Would Ask Those Who Have Touched My Life, Not Knowing It, Who Have Found For Me Vices Which I Do Not Remember In The Memory Of My Life, I Would Ask Them Whether All Can Afford To Cast The First Stone ... Then That, As Best Judges, They Will Vacate Their Own Seats, Having Deprived My Constituents Of Their Right Here To Mine.

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.

The Abuse Dies In A Day; But The Denial Slays The Life Of The People And Entombs The Hope Of The Race.

Will Any One, Save The Most Bigoted, Contend, That It Is Not Certain Gain To Humanity To Spread Unbelief In The Terrible Doctrine That Eternal Torment Is The Probable Fate Of The Great Majority Of The Human Family?

God Is A Spirit. Jesus Was Led Up Of The Spirit To Be Tempted Of The Devil; And It Is Also True That Spirits Are Very Likely To Lead Men To The Devil. Too Intimate Acquaintance With Whisky Toddy Overnight Is Often Followed By The Delirium Tremens And Blue-devils On The Morrow. We Advise Our Readers To Eschew Alike Spirituous And Spiritual Mixtures. They Interfere Sadly With Sober Thinking, And Play The Devil With Your Brains.

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.