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" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "

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" I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. "

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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 place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "

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" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "

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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 would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "

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" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "

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" He who does not want does not act. "

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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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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "

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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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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "

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" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "

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

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