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" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
King
Love
Death
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" So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. "
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Principles
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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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Machine
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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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World
Never
" 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
" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "
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Failure
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Fear
" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "
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Government
Good
Family
" 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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Government
Sight
Views
" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "
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Freedom
Away
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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! "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Universe
Never
Will
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Age
Old
Old Age
" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Speak
Thoughts
Men
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Men
Remember
Support
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Us
Chain
Effort
" Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
King
Full
Giving
" 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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Lie
Partnership
Truth
" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Slavery
Injustice
Great
" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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Road
Through
Action
" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Dead
World
Only
" In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
People
Were
France
" 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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Queen
Wife
King
" 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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Liberty
Rebellion
I Am
" The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. "
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Create
Value
Money
" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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Honest
Work
Noblest
" All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. "
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Heart
World
Him
" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "
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American
Side
People
" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "
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Reason
Heaven
Hell
" 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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Integrity
Great
Brave
" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "
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Beat
Living
Old
" 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. "
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You
Childhood
Eye