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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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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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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As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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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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I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite good day. If I do like it, I will say: Sit down stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world.
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
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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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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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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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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.
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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