American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
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The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.
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You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
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