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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
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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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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
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