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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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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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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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The whip degrades a severe father teaches his children to dissemble their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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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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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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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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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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