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Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

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There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

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Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

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The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

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A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

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What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

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Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

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Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

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As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

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Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: August 11th, 1833

Died: July 21st, 1899

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