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" Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "

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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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" Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. "

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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "

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" Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. "

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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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" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "

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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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" He who does not want does not act. "

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" The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. "

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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

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" I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. "

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" What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. "

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" I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. "

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

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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

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" The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. "

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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

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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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" They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. "

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

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" The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. "

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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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