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I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

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Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

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The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

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In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.

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Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

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I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

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They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.

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The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor.

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The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: August 11th, 1833

Died: July 21st, 1899

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