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Charles Bradlaugh (/ˈbrædlɔː/; 26 September 1833 – 30 January 1891) was an English political activist and atheist. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.

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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.

Country, Believe, Atheism, World, Hundred, Costs

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?

Atheism, Content, Faith, Gains, Life, Miserable

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.

Atheism, Conception, Deny, God, Ideas, Would Be

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Atheism, Chief, Chiefs, Foe, Liberty, Theology

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

Censorship In Books, Discovery, Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Truth

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

Christian, Christians, Feet, Follow, Life, Trying

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Appeal, Atheism, Court, Opinion, Public, Public Opinion

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Atheism, Body, Buried, Cheaply, Funeral, Permitted

Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.

Jesus, Honesty, Teaching, Fullness, Rightful, Teachings

A mere society form of Atheism.

Atheism, Form, Mere, Positive Atheism, Society

Idle and meaningless. . . a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Affirmation, Atheism, Form, Reverently, Solemn

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

Atheism, Doubt, Heretic, Ought, Term, Word

Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial stays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Checked, Denial, Entombs, Freedom, Men, Truth

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

Assert, Atheism, Doe, God, Positive Atheism

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

Entombs, Hope, Ignorance, People, Race

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

Affirmation, Know, Mean, Sound, Word

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 cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

War, Ideas, Being Positive, Existence, Distinct

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

Atheism, Long, March, People, Perceptible, Religion

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.

Intimate, Jesus, Lead, Men, Sadly, Spiritual

Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

Atheist, Circles, Good, Men, Moral, Virtuous

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