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Quotations by author » Robert Green Ingersoll
American Statesman and Orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899 |
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| To hate man and worship god seems to be the sum of all the creeds |
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| 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 |
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| Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. |
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| We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased |
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| We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. |
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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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| When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. |
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| Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of the race |
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| Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt |
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| You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought |
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| You have no right to erect your tollgate upon the highways of thought. You have no right to leap from the hedges of superstition and strike down the pioneers of the human race. You have no right to sacrifice the liberties of man upon the alters of ghosts. Believe what you may; preach what you desire; have all forms and ceremonies you please; exercise your liberty in your own way but extend to all others the same right. |
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