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" Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Labor
Matter
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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" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "
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" What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. "
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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "
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" I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. "
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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
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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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Heaven
" 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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Age
" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "
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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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Honest
Work
Noblest
" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "
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Beat
Living
Old
" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "
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Fate
Death
Fear
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Sacrifice
Nature
" 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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Backward
Cannot
Decay
" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "
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Without
Better
Education
" 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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Struggle
Power
Life
" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Church
Heaven
Always
" There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. "
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Go
Perfect
Together
" The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. "
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Artist
Others
" If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing
Young
World
" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "
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Losing
Heart
Earth
" 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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Soul
Cannot
Book
" 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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Liberty
Power
Enemies
" 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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Dead
World
Only
" There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. "
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Heaven
Worship
Men
" 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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" The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. "
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Cry
World
Gold
" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
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Malice
Logic
" Liberty is the breath of progress. "
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Progress
Breath
" 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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Character
Stand
Universe