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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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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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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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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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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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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