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" I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
I Am
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" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "
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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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" Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. "
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" Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy. "
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" I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. "
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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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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "
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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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" 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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" Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. "
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" Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. "
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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "
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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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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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" 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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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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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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" 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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" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
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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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" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "
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" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "
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" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "
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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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