American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.
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Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.
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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
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Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.
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You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.
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Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.
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