Robert Green Ingersoll

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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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. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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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

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