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An honest God is the noblest work of man.

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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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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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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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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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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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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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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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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