Robert Ingersoll
Robert 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"...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 August 1833
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There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished
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The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future
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My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
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A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
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There is not in all the pulpits ingenuity enough to harmonize these ignorant and stupid contradictions
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And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good, that he is merciful, that he is just, that he is love
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You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought
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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