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"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people."
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"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"

"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

"A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?"
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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."

"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."

"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 blind-folded fear."

"I hope we shall ... crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."
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