Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
From Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
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