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" The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Create
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Money
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" 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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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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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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" 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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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
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" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "
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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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" 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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" I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. "
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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "
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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 children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "
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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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" 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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" 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 Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
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Heaven
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" 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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" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "
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" I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "
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" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "
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" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "
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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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" 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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" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "
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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "
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