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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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