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• The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Religion, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

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  Lying, Miracle, Facts

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

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• Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

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  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

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  Justice, Atheism, Culprit

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

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• You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

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  Helping, Poor, Helpfulness

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

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• I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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• The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Freedom, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.186, Library of Alexandria

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• God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

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  Race, Religion, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.905, Library of Alexandria

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

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  Rooms

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.475, Library of Alexandria

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• Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Progress, World, Superstitions

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.310, Library of Alexandria

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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  Education, College, Pebbles

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

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  Joy, World, Dramatic

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1912). “Interviews”

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• The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

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  Children, Honesty, Lying

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

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• Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

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  Doubt, Religion, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.977, Library of Alexandria

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• Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

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  Stars, Clouds, Light

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1089, Library of Alexandria

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• Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

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  Men, Economic Inequality, Political

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.236, Library of Alexandria

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• I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

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  Giving, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Miscellany”

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• If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.

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  Hate, Believe, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Interviews”

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

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  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

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  Land, Support, Arrogance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2253, Library of Alexandria

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• The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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  Funny, Humorous, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.261, Library of Alexandria

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• Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

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  Ignorance, Religion, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.113

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• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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