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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" 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. "

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" There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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. "

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" Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race. "

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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

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" 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 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. "

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" Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "

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" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "

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

" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. "

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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. "

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. "

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