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" There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" 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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" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "

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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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" Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. "

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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "

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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "

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" 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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" If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. "

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" There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. "

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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

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" 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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" Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. "

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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "

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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "

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" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "

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" 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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" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "

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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 hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. "

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" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "

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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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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "

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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "

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" What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. "

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" Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. "

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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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" The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "

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