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" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" 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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" 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? "

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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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" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "

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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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" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "

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" The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "

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

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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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" The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. "

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" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "

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" 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. "

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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "

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" I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. "

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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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" The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. "

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" I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "

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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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" 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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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "

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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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" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. "

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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "

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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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" When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. "

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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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