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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.
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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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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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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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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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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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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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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