All Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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Education
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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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.
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Religion
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll in
Nature
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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
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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.
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll in
Anger
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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.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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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.
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