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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

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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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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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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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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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.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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