Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 11

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• If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doe, Facts, Christ

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1061, Library of Alexandria

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• If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

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  Real, Men, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.759, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Mother, Truth, Ambition

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.932, Library of Alexandria

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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  Courage, Integrity, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

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  Fire, Orthodoxy, Hell

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.516, Library of Alexandria

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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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  God, Jesus, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.895, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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  Flower, Men, Climbing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2183, Library of Alexandria

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• I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

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  Two, Smoking, Cigar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

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  Religion, Able, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

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  Time, Past, Causes

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1178, Library of Alexandria

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• I am going to put the Bible out of business.

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  Bible, Biblical

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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.

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  Life, Love Is, Flames

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1985, Library of Alexandria

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• A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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  Shadow, Debt, Fields

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.241, Library of Alexandria

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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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  Love, Sad, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4677, Library of Alexandria

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• He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

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  Past, Brutality, Crime

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1841, Library of Alexandria

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• When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

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  Life, Evil, Triumph

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

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  Character, Impossible, Hebrew

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.427, Library of Alexandria

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• Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

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  Believe, Heart, Men

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• There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

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  Men, Clouds, Hands

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1216, Library of Alexandria

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• Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

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  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

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  Religion, Atheism, Signatures

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1903). “What Must We Do to be Saved?: A Study of the Christian Religion, Its Creeds, and Its Sacred Book”

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• If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

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  Heaven, Want, Reason

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• The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.

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  Religious, Philosophy, Race

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4052, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing but truth is immortal.

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  Truth Is, Immortal

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.174, Library of Alexandria

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