Thomas Jefferson

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies. (Letter to Dr. Woods)

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. [The Revelation of St. John is] the ravings of a maniac.

Voltaire

[Christ's virgin birth is a] fable, which for absurdity and extravagance is not exceeded by any thing that is to be found in the mythology of the ancients.

The wretched contrivance with which this latter part [Resurrection] is told, exceeds every thing that went before it.

Despair.com

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Thomas Jefferson

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

Manmohan Singh

There can be no political compromise with terror. No inch conceded, no compassion shown. There are no good terrorists and bad terrorists. There is no cause, root or branch that can ever justify the killing of innocent people.