More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
  2. No man can control his belief. If I hear certain evidence I will believe a certain thing. If I fail to hear it I may never believe it. If i…
  3. Marriages are made by men and women; not by society; not by the state; not by the church; not by supernatural beings.
  4. No man can open his mouth against the freedom of speech without denying every argument he may put forward. Why? He is exercising the right …
  5. Man has found that he must give liberty to others in order to have it himself.
  6. No man in the hour of death ever regretted having been honest. No man when the shadows of the last day were gathering about the pillow of d…
  7. Love is not a crime ... men and women should be proudly natural; they need not grovel on the earth and cover their faces for shame.
  8. Nothing but falsehood needs the assistance of fame and place, of robes and mitres, of tiaras and crowns.

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