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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

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"Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought..."

"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."

"A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Education

"There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets."
Equality

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

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

"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them."

"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."
Religion

"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice."

"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."

"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."

"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."

"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."

"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

"There is no slavery but ignorance."

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm."

"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself."

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