“If it is not historically true that such and such things happened in Palestine eighteen centuries ago, what becomes of Christianity?”

— Thomas Huxley (c.1860), Source; cited by Mangasarian (1909) in: The Truth About Jesus: is He a Myth? (pg. 2)

“When I seriously believe a thing, I say so in a few words, leaving the reader to determine what my belief is worth. But I do not choose to temper down every expression of personal opinion into courteous generalities. Let us learn to speak plainly and intelligibly first, and, if it may be, gracefully afterwards.”

— John Ruskin (1885), On the Old Road (pg. 260); in: The Bible Unveiled (opening quote)

“A difficult subject is in the nature of a challenge to the mind. One difficult task attempted is worth a thousand commonplace efforts completed. The majority of people avoid the difficult and fear danger. But he who would progress must even court danger. Political and religious liberty were discovered through peril and struggle. The world owes its emancipation to human daring. Had Columbus feared danger, America might have slept for another thousand years.”

— Mangasar Mangasarian (1909), The Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth? (Ѻ) [2]

“An account in which such scrupulous attention is shown to supposed sacred numbers is apt to be more artificial than real. The biographers of Lincoln or of Socrates do not seem to be interested in numbers. They write history, not stories.”

— Mangasar Mangasarian (1909), The Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth? (Ѻ) [2]

“Is there any story or romance in the Bible that can compare in beauty and might to the Faust of Goethe, or the Omar Khayyam of Fitzgerald (Ѻ) , or to the Prometheus Unbound of Shelley? Is there a book among the five attributed to Moses, or the dozen or more attributed to the prophets, that is as entrancing as Victor Hugo's Les Miserables?”

— Mangasar Mangasarian (1911), The Bible Unveiled (Ѻ)