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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. "

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" In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. "

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" 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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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "

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

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" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "

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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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" 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 sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "

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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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" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "

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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "

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

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

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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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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "

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" The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. "

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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "

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" Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more. "

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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "

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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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" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "

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" Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy. "

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" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "

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