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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
The Great Agnostic
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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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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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
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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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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.
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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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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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Death is only perfect rest.
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