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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
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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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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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