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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
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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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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As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand injustice everywhere hypocrisy at the altar venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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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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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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