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Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism
Anger
is a
wind
which blows out the
lamp
of the
mind
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
Few nations
have
been so
poor
as to
have
but one
god
. Gods were made so easily, and the raw
material
cost
so little, that generally the god
market
was fairly glutted and
heaven
crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
Happiness
is not a reward-it is a
consequence
.
Suffering
is not a punishment-it is a
result
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at
least
to
lead
us to the end of our lives by an agreeable
route
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
I am
inferior
of any man whose rights I
trample
under
foot
. Men are not
superior
by
reason
of the accidents of
race
or
color
. They are
superior
who
have
the
best
heart--the
best
brain
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
I would rather live and
love
where
death
is
king
than
have
eternal
life
where
love
is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
In
nature
there
are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
Intellectual
liberty
is the air of the soul, the
sunshine
of the mind, and without it, the
world
is a prison, the
universe
a
dungeon
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
It is a blessed
thing
that in every age
someone
has had the
individuality
enough
and
courage
enough
to
stand
by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
The greatest
test
of
courage
on
earth
is to
bear
defeat
without losing
heart
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
The
present
is the
necessary
product
of all the past, the
necessary
cause
of all the
future
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
»
The
triumph
of
justice
is the only
peace
.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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