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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
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Right
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" 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. "
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" 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
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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "
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" 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
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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
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" 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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" I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. "
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" Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" 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
God
Heaven
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" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Age
Old
Old Age
" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Destroyed
Must
" 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
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Long
Law
" 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
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Artist
Others
" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Fate
Death
Fear
" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Heaven
Hell
" 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
Face
Say
Man
" 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
Bridges
Better
You
" The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Success
Life
" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Property
Few
Men
" 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
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Free
Flower
" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Create
Value
Money
" As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
People
Power
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" 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
Men
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" Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Sometimes
Heart
Hide
" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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Road
Through
Action
" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "
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Church
Heaven
Always
" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Wind
Which
Out
" There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. "
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Best
Happy