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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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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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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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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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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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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.
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If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
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