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" I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Wife
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" Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more. "
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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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" 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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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
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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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Great
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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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" 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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" The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. "
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" The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. "
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