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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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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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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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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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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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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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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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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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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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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