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. 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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Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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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.
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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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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You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
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You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.
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Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
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What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
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Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
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Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.