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Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

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Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

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It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

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There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

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Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

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If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

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Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: August 11th, 1833

Died: July 21st, 1899

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