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" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making. "

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

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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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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "

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" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "

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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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" I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. "

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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "

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" Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. "

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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "

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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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" No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. "

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

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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "

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

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" Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. "

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" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "

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" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "

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" The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. "

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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "

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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "

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" He who does not want does not act. "

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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "

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