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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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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Robert Ingersoll
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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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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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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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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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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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An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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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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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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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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If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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