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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
First
Honor
Remembered
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" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "
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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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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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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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Who
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" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "
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" Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' "
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Will
Him
" The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. "
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Place
Be Happy
Happy
" 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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Us
Chain
Effort
" 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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You
Childhood
Eye
" So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. "
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Nature
Principles
Think
" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "
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Problems
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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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Civilization
Man
True
" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "
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Sometimes
Heart
Hide
" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
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Insolence
Malice
Logic
" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "
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Man
Inferior
I Am
" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "
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Stand
" 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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" All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. "
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Heart
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Him
" 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
" Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "
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Ignorance
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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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World
Only
" 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. "
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Partnership
Past
" 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
" 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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" 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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