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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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Yates County
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.
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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.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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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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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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