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" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
People
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Because
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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 am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "
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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "
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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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" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "
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Golden
" The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. "
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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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" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "
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Common
Air
Most
" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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World
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Heaven
Cowards
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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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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
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Experience
Observation
" There is no slavery but ignorance. "
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Ignorance
Slavery
" Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy. "
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Gift
Genius
" There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Heaven
Worship
Men
" Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Matter
Others
" 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! "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Universe
Never
Will
" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "
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Religion
Hell
Heaven
" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Fight
Common Sense
" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "
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American
Side
People
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Integrity
Great
Brave
" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "
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Mountains
Presence
Clouds
" They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. "
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Him
Know
Write
" The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. "
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Artist
Others
" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "
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People
About
" It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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People
" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "
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Facts
Religion
Science
" 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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Me
Right
" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "
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Limitations
Even
Nature