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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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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Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
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The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor.
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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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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.
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There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.