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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.
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
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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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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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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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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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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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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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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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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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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Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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