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" The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" 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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" 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. "

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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer. "

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. "

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. "

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

" 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

" 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

" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. "

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