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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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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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.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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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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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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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll
