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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Written by Robert Green Ingersoll

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