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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
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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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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No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .
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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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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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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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