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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "

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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

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" I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "

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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "

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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "

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

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" Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. "

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" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "

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

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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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" 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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" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "

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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "

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" I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. "

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" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "

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

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" Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' "

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" 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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" Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. "

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" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "

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