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• The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Men, Increase

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, People, Giving

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

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• Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.

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  Feet, Steps, Agree

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Interviews”

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• The way to be happy is to make others so.

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  Happiness, Inner Peace, Way

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.86

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• Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.

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  Strong, Intelligent, People

  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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• The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

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  Weed, Making A Difference, Thorns

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

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  Stand Alone, Presidents Day, Type

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.675, Library of Alexandria

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• He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

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  Memories, War, Our World

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

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• The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

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  Art, Men, Clothes

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3989, Library of Alexandria

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

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  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Death is only perfect rest.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Perfect

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• When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

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  Facts, Unnecessary, Infamous

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.101, Library of Alexandria

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• An honest God is the noblest work of man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Men, Religion

  'The Gods' (1876) pt. 1, p. 2.

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• He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

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  Justice, Enemy, Treats

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1610, Library of Alexandria

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• No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

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  Men, Heaven, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

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• I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

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  Stars, Passion, Night

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1721, Library of Alexandria

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• Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.

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  Christian, Children, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2145, Library of Alexandria

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• The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

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  Thinking, Atheism, Machines

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.196, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Writing, Years, Names

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