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" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. "

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

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" 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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" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "

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" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "

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" How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. "

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

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" 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

" The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. "

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" In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. "

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

" If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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

" Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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" Liberty is the breath of progress. "

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

" 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. "

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