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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.
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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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.
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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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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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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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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
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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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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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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
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Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.
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There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.
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