More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. Now and then somebody examines, and in spite of all keeps his manhood, and has the courage to follow where his reason leads. Then the pious…
  2. One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
  3. Nothing but falsehood needs the assistance of fame and place, of robes and mitres, of tiaras and crowns.
  4. Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for …
  5. 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…
  6. Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
  7. 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 …
  8. People justify all kinds of tyranny toward children upon the ground that they are totally depraved. At the bottom of ages of cruelty lies t…

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