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“Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .”

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Horace Mann

Horace Mann, an American politician born on May 4, 1796 and died on August 2, 1859, played a significant role in the reform of American education and is known as the father of public education in the United States. more

“Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.”

Source: Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates

“Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.”

“I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.”

Men Believe Heart Self Hard I Believe Justice Enemy Hard Work My Friends I Believe In Revenge Defense Self Defense Vipers

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Love your friends and be just to your enemies.”

Enemy Love You

Book:The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]

Source: The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]

“Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.”

Doe Suffering Enemy Military Sake Revenge Cruelty Torture Confession Infliction

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.”

Reason Hands Law Nations Enemy Four Victory Judgment Paid Significant Injury Submit Ignored Vengeance Tribute Captives Great Nations Being Ignored

Author:Robert H. Jackson

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