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" They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "

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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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" The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. "

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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. "

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

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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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" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "

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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 truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. "

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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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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "

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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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" 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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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "

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" All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. "

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" Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more. "

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" In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience. "

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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

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

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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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" Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. "

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