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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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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Dresden
Yates County
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Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
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The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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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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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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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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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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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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