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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
The greatest test of courage on Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Commerce is the great civilizer (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
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 (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
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 (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
No one, in the world’s whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)
I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings if I can help it. I don’t want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way... You must do exactly what is right, and let those who have done wrong bear the consequences (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)