Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

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“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: The works of Robert G. Ingersoll (1978 edition), Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465521330

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“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: The works of Robert G. Ingersoll (1909 edition)

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“Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: The works of Robert G. Ingersoll (1978 edition), Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465521330

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“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany (1915 edition)

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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: Ingersoll a biographical appreciation, by Herman E. Kittredge. 1911 (1911 edition)

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“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: Prose-poems and selections from the writings and sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll (1888 edition)

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“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Source/Notes: The works of Robert G. Ingersoll (1978 edition), Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465521330

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“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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