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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. "

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" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "

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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. "

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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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" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "

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" In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience. "

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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "

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" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

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" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "

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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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" Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more. "

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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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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "

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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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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "

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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 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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" 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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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "

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" The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. "

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" Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. "

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

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" Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. "

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" If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? "

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" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "

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" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "

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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "

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" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "

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" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "

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