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" Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "

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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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" 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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" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "

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" Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. "

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" Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. "

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" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. "

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" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "

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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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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "

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" A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "

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" The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. "

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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "

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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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" The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. "

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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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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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" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "

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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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