American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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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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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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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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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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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
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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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He who does not want does not act.
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We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
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