How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
From Robert Green Ingersoll
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.
For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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