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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Will
World
Love
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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. "
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Heaven
Little
" We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
See
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Stand
" What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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You
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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Hope
Only
" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Without
Better
Education
" The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Wish
Great Man
Man
" 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
Nature
Principles
Think
" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Queen
Wife
King
" In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
People
Were
France
" Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Now
American
Golden
" Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
People
Men
Children
" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Insolence
Malice
Logic
" It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Political
Independence
People
" Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Consequences
Fear
Man
" Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Brain
Man
Honest
" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
He
Himself
Matter
" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Our
Opinions
Most
" Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion
Humanity
Intellectual
" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Church
Heaven
Always
" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty
Long
Law
" I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Childhood
Eye
" Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never! "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Universe
Never
Will
" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
King
Within
Place
" This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Great
Mind
World
" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Me
Right
" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Worthless
Gold
Gems
" I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Thought
Men
Me
" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Pebbles
Places
Where
" Liberty is the breath of progress. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty
Progress
Breath
" Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Government
Sight
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