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Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

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The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

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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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Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

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

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

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There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

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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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Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

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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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In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.

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

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When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

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Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

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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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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

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

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I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

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Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.'

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Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.

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

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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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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

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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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I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

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Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

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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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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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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.

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