Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 6

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• Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Labor Day, Answers

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

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• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Atheist, Teaching

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1279, Library of Alexandria

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• To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

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  Hate, Men, Worship

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.301, Library of Alexandria

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• Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

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  Theology, Knows

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.

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  Thinking, Law, Able

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

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  Death, Teacher, Atheist

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• So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

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  Giving, Charity, Natural

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.947, Library of Alexandria

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• This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Happiness, Justice, Humanity

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• If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Forgiveness, God, Forgive Me

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• You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Vaccines, Rich

  "Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll".

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• I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

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  Men, Heaven, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.202, Library of Alexandria

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• On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

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  Mother, Children, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.925, Library of Alexandria

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• If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Astrology, People, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.308, Library of Alexandria

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• Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

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  Art, Work, Men

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

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• Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Heaven, Raw Materials

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.10

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• I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

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  Stars, Believe, Ninety Nine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

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• If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

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  Children, If There Is A God, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

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• Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Mind, Doctrine

  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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• For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

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  Atheist, Promise, Littles

  "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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• As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

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  Men, Rights, Giving

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

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• Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

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  Strong, Simple, Heartless

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.59

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• If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

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  Memories, Book, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4158, Library of Alexandria

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• Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doubt, Progress, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.88, Library of Alexandria

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• The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god -- one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhors the rest of mankind.

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  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

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  Wise, Gratitude, Hero

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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