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The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion
Worth
Law
Value
Argument
Fraud
Religious
Only
Supported
Without
Making
Curse
Hardly
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Best
Religion
Hell
Worst
Out
Put
Always
Heaven
Sent
Us
Theology
Let Us
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion
Never
Because
Reform
Mankind
Slavery
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Matter
Every
Others
Throne
He
Occupies
Labor
Dishonest
Who
Lives
Every Man
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Me
Dangerous
Liberty
Crime
Will
Thought
Men
Doubt
Minds
Enslave
Attack
Doctrines
Because
Nor
Accord
Hold
Them
Then
Your
Creeds
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Musicians
People
Genius
Stupidity
Kings
Shakespeare
Had
Thus
Always
Clowns
Successful
Actor
Servant
Treated
I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
Sally Yates
Constitution
Legal
Obligation
Law
Advice
Believe
President
Independent
Follow
Give
General
Attorney
Attorney General
Deputy
There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
Sally Yates
Broken
Justice
Demanding
System
Laws
Accountable
Held
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Samuel Dash
You
Believe
Imagination
Make
Make A Difference
Doing
Difference
Use
Your
Initiative
Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.
Valerie Jarrett
Adversity
You
Stronger
Hopeful
More
Only
Overcoming
Makes
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.
Valerie Jarrett
People
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Impact
Devastating
Affected
Confinement
Psychology
Who
Consequence
We do have to ask ourselves as a culture, what do we want to be? You know, what are our founding values? And if we are a society where everybody should have that fair shot and get a second chance, then we should take the necessary steps to implement that and make it a reality.
Valerie Jarrett
You
Culture
Reality
Values
Society
Second Chance
Everybody
Our
Ourselves
Take
Implement
Steps
Fair
Know
Make
Get
Where
Want
Ask
Then
Shot
Should
Founding
Necessary
Second
Chance
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Valerie Jarrett
Day
Challenges
Face
Power
Important
President
Rule
Obama
Given
Daunting
Take
Day One
Begin
Elect
Really
Prepared
Own your choices. Don't feel ashamed about what you're doing, trust yourself that you're a good parent, don't let anybody else shame you, and, certainly, don't shame yourself.
Valerie Jarrett
Good
You
Trust
Yourself
Own
Else
Good Parent
About
Parent
Shame
Feel
Doing
Anybody
Anybody Else
Ashamed
Choices
Your
Certainly
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie
Government
People
Strong
Free
Be Strong
Power
Weakness
Only
Concentrated
Reach
Government Power
Dictators
Productive
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
Vote
Political
Become
Intolerant
Catching
Parties
Political Parties
Tolerant
Groups
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie
War
Military
Emancipation
Would
Slower
Colored
Come
Without
Came
Reform
America
Process
Race
Social
Act
Measure
Humanitarian
Necessity
Enlightenment
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
William Jennings Bryan
Bible
Believe
Would
Had
Jonah
Said
Whale
Swallowed
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
William Jennings Bryan
Conversation
People
Thought
Say
Says
He
Talking
His
Heard
Person
Listener
Wanted
Really
Amount
Four
Two
Two People
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
Alan Dershowitz
God
Good
Bible
People
Law
Simple
Bad People
Good People
Hell
Distinguished
Bad
Abide
Law-Abiding
Merely
Most
Because
Go
Go To Hell
Commands
Question
Heaven
Requires
Why
The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'
Alan Dershowitz
Resort
Longer
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Last
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
Alan Dershowitz
Freedom
Fear
Freedom Of Speech
Become
Threat
Restricting
Excuse
Justification
Should
Violence
Speech
The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.
Alan Dershowitz
Will
Evidence
Prosecution
Obtained
Make
Sure
Because
Questions
Truthfully
Often
Wants
Process
Which
Raise
Presented
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Alan Dershowitz
Democracy
Hypocrisy
Important
Accountability
Very
Candor
Place
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
Alan Dershowitz
Justice
Accountability
Enormous
President
Resort
Ought
Approval
States
Torture
Case
Openly
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Court
Done
Going
United
Lives
United States
Last
Numbers
Save
A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media.
Alan Dershowitz
You
Experience
Visit
See
About
Read
Always
Israel
Hear
Different
Personally
Media
Cognitive
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