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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. "

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" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "

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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "

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

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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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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

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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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" 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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" The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. "

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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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" 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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" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "

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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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" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "

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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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" The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. "

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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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" 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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" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "

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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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" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "

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

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

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

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" The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. "

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" Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. "

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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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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

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