Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
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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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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.
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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.
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They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
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All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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Meekness is the mask of malice.
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All religion is slavery.