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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Earth
Renders
Injustice
Impossible
Justice
Heaven
Upon
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.
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If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
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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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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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