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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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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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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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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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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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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
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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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But honest men do not pretend to know they are candid and sincere they love the truth they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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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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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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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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The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
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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.
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