As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Libe…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.196, Library of Alexandria
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