American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
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
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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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The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.
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The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.
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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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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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There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.
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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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I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
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It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.
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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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The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
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