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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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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living tears for the dead.
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.
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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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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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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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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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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
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