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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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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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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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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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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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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
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