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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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
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The Great Agnostic
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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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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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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