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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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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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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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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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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 man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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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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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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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 there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
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