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" 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
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" He who does not want does not act. "
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" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "
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Conscience
" 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. "
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Long
Law
" Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. "
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Himself
Matter
" 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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Fraud
World
Truth
" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Brain
Change
Done
" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "
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Immortality
Affection
Wish
" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "
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Home
Light
World
" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Right
Truth
" Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Belief
Ignorance
Soil
" Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Government
World
Religion
" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Fight
Common Sense
" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Speak
Thoughts
Men
" 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
" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature
Nor
Consequences
" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Dead
World
Only
" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Reach
More
Fame
" 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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Stupidity
Genius
People
" The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. "
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Wish
Great Man
Man
" 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
" 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
" I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Heaven
Cowards
Thought
" The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Girl
Woman
Love
" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Sometimes
Heart
Hide
" A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Lie
Partnership
Truth
" When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love
Life
Work
" The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Children
Authors
Great
" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Hell
People
American
" 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
" If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Your
Only
God