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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "

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" 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. "

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" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "

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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "

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" 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. "

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" Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. "

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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "

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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! "

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" The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. "

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" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "

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" Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "

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

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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "

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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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" Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. "

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" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "

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

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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "

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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "

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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. "

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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "

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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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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "

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" What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. "

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" As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. "

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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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