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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

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There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

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If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

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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.

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

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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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An honest God is the noblest work of man.

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

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Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

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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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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

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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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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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Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

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I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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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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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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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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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

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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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They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.

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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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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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He who does not want does not act.

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