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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" 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

" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "

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

" 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

" You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" 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

" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. "

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

" In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "

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

" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "

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

" Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll