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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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies the one enriches, and the other impoverishes the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
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If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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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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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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