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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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  1. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
  2. Crowned force has governed ignorance through fear. Hypocrisy and tyranny - two vultures - have fed upon the liberties of man. From all thes…
  3. Certainly marriages by Justices of the Peace cannot cause the mental, moral and financial decay of a State.
  4. Do not, I pray you, pluck from the heart the sweet flower of pity and trample it in the bloody dust of superstition.
  5. Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity.
  6. Does belief depend upon evidence? I think it does somewhat in some cases. How is it when a jury is sworn to try a case, hearing all the evi…
  7. Each is entitled to the honest opinion of all.
  8. Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully sa…

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  • morality
  • ethics
  • courage
  • virtue

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