Quote #134

I have the same right to give you my opinion that you have to give me yours. I have no right to compel you to hear, if you do not want to. I have no right to compel you to speak if you do not want to. If you do not wish to know my thought, I have no right to force it upon you.

More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. I have the same right to express my thought to the whole world, that the whole world has to express its thought to me.
  2. I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, las…
  3. I have said before, and I say again, the brain thinks in spite of me, and I am not responsible for my thoughts. I cannot control the beatin…
  4. I never have denied the immortality of the soul. I have simply been honest. I have said: 'I do not know.'
  5. I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the joy of life?
  6. I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this. God cannot afford to cast over the battle…
  7. I had rather be a beggar and spend my last dollar like a king, than be a king and spend my money like a beggar! If it has got to go, let it…
  8. I tell you the children have the same rights that we have, and we ought to treat them as though they were human beings. They should be rear…

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