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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. "

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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" 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

" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. "

Robert Green Ingersoll