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• The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln1809–1865

  • Anti-Religion

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Is Theology Poetry?” (1945)

• It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Patrick Henry

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy