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• The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

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  Pain, Son, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.474, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

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  Work, Believe, Blessed

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2712, Library of Alexandria

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• An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

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  Personality, Infinite, Impossibility

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.445, Library of Alexandria

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• A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

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  Ignorance, Men, Morality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1987, Library of Alexandria

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• Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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  Hope, Liars, Lying

  Speech, 1892.

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• Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

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  Bible, Religious, Fear

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.449, Library of Alexandria

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• In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

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  Death, Acceptance, Clouds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1594, Library of Alexandria

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• All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.

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  Religious, Giving Up, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4281, Library of Alexandria

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• The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

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  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

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  Intellectual, Liberty, Clay

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1929). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll...”

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• The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

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  Dumb, Wish, Different

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2190, Library of Alexandria

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• The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

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  Atheism, Church, Positive Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1410, Library of Alexandria

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• The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

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  Mean, Men, Done

  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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• Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

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  Done, Priests, Humans

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2161, Library of Alexandria

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• Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

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  Coffins, Answers, Barbarians

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

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• I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

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  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

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  Love, Summer, Flower

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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• In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

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  Liars, Sleep, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

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  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “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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• Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

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  Country, Warrior, Knights

  Speech nominating James G. Blaine for president, Republican National Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 15 June 1876

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• Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

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  Life, Memories, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

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  Get Well Soon, Health, Disease

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• Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

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  Powerful, Mistake, Successful

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

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• And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

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  Life, Mother, Differences

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4535, Library of Alexandria

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• Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Children, Intelligent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.976, Library of Alexandria

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