Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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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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I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.
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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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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.