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" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Government
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" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "
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" They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. "
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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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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "
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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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" There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. "
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" Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. "
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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "
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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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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
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Nor
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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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" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "
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" In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. "
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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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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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" They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. "
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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "
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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "
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Free
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" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "
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" I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. "
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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
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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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" Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. "
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" Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. "
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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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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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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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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "
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" The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. "
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" Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. "
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