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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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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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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.
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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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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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I do not believe in loving enemies I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.
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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
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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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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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