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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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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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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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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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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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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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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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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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Ignorance worships mystery reason explains it the one grovels, the other soars.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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