"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it"

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God."

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."

Thomas Jefferson