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" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Men
Change
Before
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" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "
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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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" Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. "
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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "
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" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "
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" There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. "
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" The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. "
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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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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
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" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "
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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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Stand
Universe
" 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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Great
" Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. "
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Wait
" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "
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" Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. "
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Fear
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" The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. "
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" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "
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Long
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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "
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" Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. "
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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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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. "
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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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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "
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