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• Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Affection, Born

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• Intelligence is the only moral guide.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Moral, Guides

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3927, Library of Alexandria

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• Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liberty, Sake

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

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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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  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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• He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Strong, Hands, Hypocrisy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine”, p.122

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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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Way, Crosses, One Way

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, World

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

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• Every library is an arsenal.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Library, Arsenal

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.175, Library of Alexandria

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• I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Doe, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2153, Library of Alexandria

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• If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Destiny, Farce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

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• The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Success, Men, Hypocrisy

  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 ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Powerful, Pride

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

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• I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Believe, Hard Work

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2185, Library of Alexandria

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• Commerce is the great civilizer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Commerce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

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• Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Years, Ignorant, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.484, Library of Alexandria

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• A good deed is the best prayer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4651, Library of Alexandria

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• I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Vote

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1403, Library of Alexandria

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• Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Asylums, Christianity, Made

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1309, Library of Alexandria

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• The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Crush, Bounds

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Space, Mind, Liberty

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

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• Death is only perfect rest.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Perfect

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• The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2195, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  "Ingersoll the Magnificent". Book by Joseph L. Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1957.

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• I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Soul, Attention

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria

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