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" If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Government
Money
Me
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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "
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Out
" 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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" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "
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" I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. "
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" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
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Heaven
Always
" George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. "
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Race
Through
" The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. "
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World
Gold
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
War
You
Will
" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "
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Stand
Universe
" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Fight
Common Sense
" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Surroundings
Love
Had
" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "
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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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Blessed
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" Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Explore
You
Walls
" If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men. "
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Only
God
" 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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" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "
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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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Views
" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "
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People
American
" Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "
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Ignorance
Freedom
" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "
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World
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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "
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Wealth
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" There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career. "
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Impossible
" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
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Within
Place
" 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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Education
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" The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. "
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