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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
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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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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as the corner-stone of American Liberty. This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.
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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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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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