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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.
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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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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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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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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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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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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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
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If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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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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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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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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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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