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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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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Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Religion
Much
Freedom
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the Judgment Seat drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of A man's a man for 'a that, than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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