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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .

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 church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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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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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
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In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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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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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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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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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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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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