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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "

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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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" 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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" Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. "

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" Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. "

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" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "

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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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" A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. "

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" Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. "

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" I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. "

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" There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. "

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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 grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "

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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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" If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. "

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

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" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "

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" Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. "

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

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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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" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. "

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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "

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

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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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" 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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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "

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