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" I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "

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" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

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" It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. "

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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "

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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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" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "

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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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" Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. "

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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 is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "

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" In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. "

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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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" 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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" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "

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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "

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" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "

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

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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "

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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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" He who does not want does not act. "

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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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" Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. "

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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

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

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" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. "

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

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