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" The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Rule
Truth
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" 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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" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "
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" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. "
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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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" 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
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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 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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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "
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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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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion
Never
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" 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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Him
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "
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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
People
Men
Children
" I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. "
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Thought
Men
Me
" 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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Money
Me
" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "
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Night
Death
" 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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Christian
Partnership
Past
" George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. "
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Race
Through
" 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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King
Full
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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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Death
" 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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Age
Old
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" You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. "
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You
" Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never! "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Universe
Never
Will
" 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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Limitations
Even
Nature
" He who does not want does not act. "
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Who
Act
Does
" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "
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Love
Had
" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
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Observation
" Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. "
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Oak
Rude
Poetry
" There is no slavery but ignorance. "
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Ignorance
Slavery