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- We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
- We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the…
- The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred…
- Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,…
- I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the…
- It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is…
- I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now,…
- As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the…
- God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day…
- In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
- Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.
- There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them
- Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.…
- Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
- New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them…
- I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of…
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