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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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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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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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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