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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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
The Great Agnostic
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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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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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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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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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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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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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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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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