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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Biography

Author Profession: Lawyer
Nationality: American
Born: August 11, 1833
Died: July 21, 1899

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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