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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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.
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The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
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The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.
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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 more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
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Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
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They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
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It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.
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Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.
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Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
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Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.