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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
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An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
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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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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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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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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.
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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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