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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "
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Disaster
Fear
" 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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People
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" 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. "
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Light
World
" 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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Long
Man
" 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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Wife
King
" 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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World
Religion
" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. "
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Flag
Knew
Man
" 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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Power
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" Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king. "
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Man
Honest
" 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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Full
Giving
" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "
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Listening
Night
Death
" A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. "
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Truth
Seek
" 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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Even
Nature
" When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. "
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Blessed
Brave
" If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? "
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Government
Money
Me
" 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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Life
Joy
Him
" 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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Consequences
Fear
Man
" 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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Only
God
" Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. "
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Useful
Machine
Freedom
" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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Road
Through
Action
" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "
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Fight
Common Sense
" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
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Liar
Hope
Only
" 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. "
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Integrity
Great
Brave
" 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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Great
Think
People
" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "
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Government
Good
Family
" 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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Mother
Daughter
" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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You
Human
Human Being
" The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. "
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Place
Be Happy
Happy
" 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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Cry
World
Gold
" The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. "
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Backward
Cannot
Decay