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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Fight
Common Sense
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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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" I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. "
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" In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. "
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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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" The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. "
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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
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" What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. "
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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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" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "
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" As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. "
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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "
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Before
" A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. "
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" 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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Childhood
Eye
" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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" There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. "
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Worship
Men
" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "
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" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "
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Rebellion
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" Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. "
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World
Truth
" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "
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Where
" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "
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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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" 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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" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "
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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "
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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "
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