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• Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

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  Thinking, Hands, Justice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

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  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1895). “The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child”

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• Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

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  Weed, People, Growth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

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• Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

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  Music, Piano, Feelings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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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.

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  Miracle, Lasts, Mysterious

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Miscellany”

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• We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

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  Mother, Children, Fate

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4678, Library of Alexandria

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• I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

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  Mother, Children, Kindness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

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• There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

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  Way, Crosses, One Way

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

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  Race, Ideas, Morality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4445, Library of Alexandria

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• The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

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  Faith, Wisdom, Spring

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4656, Library of Alexandria

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• The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'

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  Death, Real, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Interviews”

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

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  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• All religion is slavery.

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  Atheism, Slavery

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

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• With soap, baptism is a good thing.

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  Atheist, Baptism, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2079, Library of Alexandria

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• The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

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  Fashion, Vulgarity Is, Clothes

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• Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

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  Christian, Men, Funeral

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4576, Library of Alexandria

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• Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

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  Liberty, Sake

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

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• One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.

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  Men, Majority, One Man

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1914). “Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

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  World, Commodity, Adaptability

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

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• Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

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  Sacred, Lips

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

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• Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

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  Greed, Arrogance, Spirituality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4311, Library of Alexandria

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• It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

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  Journey, Men, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4407, Library of Alexandria

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• If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

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  People, Religion, Atheism

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

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  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

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  Space, Mind, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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