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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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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Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Pulpit
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Justice
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Imprisonment
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An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
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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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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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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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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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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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