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.

Robert Green Ingersoll
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  2. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  3. He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

  4. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

  5. Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

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