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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Men, Worship

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.301, 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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• The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

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  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1312, Library of Alexandria

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• The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

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  Men, Heaven, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4144, Library of Alexandria

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• Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

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  War, Grief, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2217, Library of Alexandria

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• According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.

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  Two, Religion, Peculiar

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

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• The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

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  Prayer, Labor Day, Answers

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

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• Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Reading, Winter

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

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• I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Heart, Calling

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Political”

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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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• The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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  Eye, Men, Bending

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

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  Atheist, Clergy, Positive Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.479, 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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• 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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• No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

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  Work, Men, Sense Of Humor

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• Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.

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  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.444, Library of Alexandria

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• The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

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  Science, Engineering, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.67, Library of Alexandria

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• Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.

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  Religious, Thinking, Punishment

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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?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, Father

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

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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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• It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

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  God, Thinking, Want

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3989, Library of Alexandria

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

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