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September 19th, 2009

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”