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" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. "
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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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" 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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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "
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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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" Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. "
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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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" 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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" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "
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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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" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "
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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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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "
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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 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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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "
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" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "
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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
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" A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. "
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" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "
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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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" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "
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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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