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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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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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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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Honesty is the mother of confidence it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration it destroys confidence it brings social chaos. . . .
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No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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