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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "

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" He who does not want does not act. "

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

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" Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. "

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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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" Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. "

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" Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never! "

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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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" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "

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

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" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "

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" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "

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" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "

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" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "

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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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" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "

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" The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. "

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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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" When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. "

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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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" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "

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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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" This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. "

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" Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. "

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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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" I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "

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