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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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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There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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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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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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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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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
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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. . . .
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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