American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
Liberty is the breath of progress.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
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Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
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The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
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The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
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If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.
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There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
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Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
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Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
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