American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
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A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.
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A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
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In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.
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I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
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There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
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I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.
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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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