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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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.
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Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
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If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
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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.
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I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.
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Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
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Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.
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A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.