When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
From Robert Green Ingersoll
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
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.
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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