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• Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Inspiration, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2547, Library of Alexandria

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• All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

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  Country, Religious, College

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1335, Library of Alexandria

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• Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

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  Religion, World, Phases

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

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  Spiritual, Manifestation

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2984, Library of Alexandria

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• The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

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  Wisdom, Kings, Truth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

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  Success, Men, Hypocrisy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

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  Men, Rights, Race

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3053, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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  Fall, Ignorance, Foundation

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4160, Library of Alexandria

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• Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

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  Thinking, People, Positive Atheism

  Liberty of Man, Woman and Child Sect. 3

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• All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

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  Prayer, Air, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...”

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• One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

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  Education, Priests, Good School

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

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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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  Self, Way, Should

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3998, Library of Alexandria

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• Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

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  Flower, Climbing, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.244, Library of Alexandria

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• Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

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  Attention, May, Stones

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.770, Library of Alexandria

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• Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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  Honesty, Army, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1285, Library of Alexandria

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

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  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.

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  Writing, Years, Names

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• Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

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  Liberty, Vain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1162, Library of Alexandria

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• Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

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  Running, Long, Abuse

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• With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

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  Night, Sunrise, Worship

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.113, Library of Alexandria

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• The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

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  Intellectual, Progress, Infidel

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

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• There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

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  Love, Book, Learning

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• Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

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  Drama, Thinking, Views

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2164, Library of Alexandria

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• The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

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  Stars, Love Is, Hands

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11.-12. Miscellany”

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• I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.

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  Simple, Thinking, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2363, Library of Alexandria

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