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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

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Book cover for What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

What's God Got to Do With It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State by Robert G. Ingersoll

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Intelligent people know that no one knows whether there is a God or not. The existence of such a Being is merely a matter of opinion.

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“the mind of the child is like soft wax, which will take the least stamp you put on it, so let it be your care, who teach, to make the stamp good, that the wax be not hurt.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

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“this injunction of TR’s remains resonant: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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“strategy can never be divorced from the costs of implementing it.”
― Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

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“We cannot guarantee equal outcomes, but we must do all we can to ensure equal opportunity.”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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“Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly insisted that the National Security Council specify as “the basic objective of our national security policies: maintaining the security of the United States and the vitality of its fundamental values and institutions.” To achieve the former without securing the latter, he warned, would be to “destroy what we are attempting to defend.”
― Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

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