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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
King
Within
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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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" 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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" 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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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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" Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. "
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" 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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" Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. "
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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "
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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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" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "
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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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" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "
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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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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "
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