“If you want to know the opinion of your neighbor, you want his honest opinion. You do not want to be deceived. You do not want to talk with a hypocrite. You want to get straight at his honest mind -- and then you are going to judge him, not by what he says but by what he does.”

—  Robert G. Ingersoll

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

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