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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

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

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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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" 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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" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "

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" When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. "

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" The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. "

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

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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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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "

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" In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. "

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

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" The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "

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" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "

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