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Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased) ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, ... and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life. I feel that I am neither a favorite nor a victim. Nature neither loves nor hates me. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Commerce is the great civilizer. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll. ~ Walt Whitman
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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. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY,
AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.' ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns. ~ William Stewart Ross
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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All religion is slavery. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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 ... ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants? ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Nothing discloses character like the use of power. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The triumph of justice is the only peace. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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What has religion to do with facts? Nothing. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; that he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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 ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!" ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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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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In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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