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Liberty is the breath of progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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