Robert G. Ingersoll quotes - page 20

These men are the enemies of science-of intellectual progress. They ridicule and calumniate the great thinkers. They deny everything that conflicts with the "sacred Scriptures.”. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
When the minister leaves the seminary, he is not seeking the truth. He has it. View quote
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Suppose then, that I do read this Bible honestly, fairly, and when I get through I am compelled to say, "The book is not true.”. View quote
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The next gentleman who has endeavored to answer what I have said, is the Rev. Samuel Robinson. This he has done in his sermon entitled "Ghosts against God or Ingersoll against Honesty.”. View quote
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The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. View quote
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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. View quote
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Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. View quote
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He who does not want does not act. View quote
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Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. View quote
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I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. View quote
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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. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. View quote
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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. View quote
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Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. View quote
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I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. View quote
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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. View quote
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The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. View quote
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