Quotes by Lemuel Washburn

• If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?
• If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?
• If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
• Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
• The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
• Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.