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" In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Hold
Men
Born
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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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" 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. "
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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "
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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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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. "
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Great
Art
" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "
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Better
Education
" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "
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Because
" No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. "
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" In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. "
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" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "
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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "
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Writer
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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "
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Destroyed
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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "
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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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" I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. "
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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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" 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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Rebellion
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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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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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Say
Man
" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. "
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Flag
Knew
Man
" Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. "
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