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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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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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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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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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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
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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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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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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living tears for the dead.
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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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 admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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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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