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" A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. "

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" As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. "

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" Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "

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" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "

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" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "

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" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "

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" So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. "

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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "

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" A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. "

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" Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. "

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" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "

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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "

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" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "

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" Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. "

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" Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. "

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" Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. "

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" Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. "

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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "

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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "

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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "

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" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

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" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "

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" I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. "

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" A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. "

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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "

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" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "

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" What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. "

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" Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy. "

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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "

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