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Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

~Robert Green Ingersoll

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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.

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Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

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I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

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Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

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I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

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Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

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You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

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Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: August 11th, 1833

Died: July 21st, 1899

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