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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What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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Liberty is the breath of progress.
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
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Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
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Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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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.