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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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Yates County
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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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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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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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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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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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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
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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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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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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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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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