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The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
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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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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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn it ploughs no land it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
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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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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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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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The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand injustice everywhere hypocrisy at the altar venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.
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He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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