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If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
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
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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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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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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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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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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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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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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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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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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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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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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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