Hamster Learning Zone

THOMAS PAINE: "Of all of the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny of religion is the worst."

THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Religions are alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies." and "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

JOHN ADAMS: "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"

JAMES MADISON: "Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."

BEN FRANKLIN: "Lighthouses are more useful than churches."