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• The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

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  Dumb, Wish, Different

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2190, Library of Alexandria

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• The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

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  Atheism, Church, Positive Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1410, Library of Alexandria

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• The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

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  Mean, Men, Done

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

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  Done, Priests, Humans

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2161, Library of Alexandria

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• Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

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  Coffins, Answers, Barbarians

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

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  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

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  Love, Summer, Flower

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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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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  Liars, Sleep, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

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  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc”

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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.

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  Country, Warrior, Knights

  Speech nominating James G. Blaine for president, Republican National Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 15 June 1876

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• Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

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  Life, Memories, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

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  Get Well Soon, Health, Disease

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• Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

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  Powerful, Mistake, Successful

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

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  Kindness, Sunshine, Virtue

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1026, Library of Alexandria

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• Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

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  Logic, Argument, Epithet

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1647, Library of Alexandria

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• Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.

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  Integrity, Believe, Years

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”

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• Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Children, Intelligent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.976, Library of Alexandria

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• By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

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  School, People, Different

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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.

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  Names, Enemy, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.899, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

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  Creator God, Atheism, Add

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.903, Library of Alexandria

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• Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

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  Real, Enemy, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4337, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

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  Real, Character, Adversity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

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• The triumph of justice is the only peace.

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  Justice, Triumph

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3247, Library of Alexandria

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• I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

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  Religion, Church, Pioneers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2699, Library of Alexandria

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• No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

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  Believe, Men, Nymphs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1125, Library of Alexandria

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