They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

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You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science.

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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

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