Welcome to Ostrich

a gumshoe investigation & short stories

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"Prohibition goes beyond reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite through legislation. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles this country was founded upon." - Abraham Lincoln

"Hemp is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country." - Thomas Jefferson

"13 Men""POD People"

James Madison, American president and political theorist (1751-1836). "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."

"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." [April 1, 1774]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragist (1815-1902). She wrote of the Bible, "I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of women." [The Demon-Haunted World]

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation." [Treasury of Women's Quotations]

Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931). (GE) "Religion is all bunk."

Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist (1835-1910). "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."