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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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 few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty is the mother of confidence it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration it destroys confidence it brings social chaos. . . .
Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
Robert Green Ingersoll
To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
