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~ Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes ~
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes


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.
Robert Green "Bob" 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.

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With soap baptism is a good thing.

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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2015, 05:11:50 PM »
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2015, 05:12:35 PM »
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2015, 05:13:11 PM »
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

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« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2015, 05:14:02 PM »
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

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« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2015, 05:14:38 PM »
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2015, 05:15:40 PM »
Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

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« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2015, 05:16:20 PM »
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

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« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2015, 05:18:21 PM »
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2015, 05:19:14 PM »
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.

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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2015, 05:21:38 PM »
In the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2015, 05:24:06 PM »
The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2015, 05:24:43 PM »
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2015, 05:25:16 PM »
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2015, 05:26:39 PM »
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.