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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.
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
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.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.