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" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
King
Full
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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "
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" The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. "
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" I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. "
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" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "
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" Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. "
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" This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. "
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" Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. "
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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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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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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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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "
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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "
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Few
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" I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "
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" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "
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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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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "
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" If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men. "
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Only
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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. "
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" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "
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Away
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" He who does not want does not act. "
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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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" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "
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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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" 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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" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "
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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "
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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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" 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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