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"I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past."
Robert Green Ingersoll"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Robert Green Ingersoll"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force."
Robert Green Ingersoll"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."
Robert Green Ingersoll"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."
Robert Green Ingersoll"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
Robert Green Ingersoll"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
Robert Green Ingersoll"He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor."
Robert Green Ingersoll"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."
Robert Green Ingersoll"A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers."
Robert Green Ingersoll"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
Robert Green Ingersoll"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
Robert Green Ingersoll"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"A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others."
Robert Green Ingersoll"A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."
Robert Green Ingersoll"It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."
Robert Green Ingersoll"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."
Robert Green Ingersoll"What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy."
Robert Green Ingersoll"When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth."
Robert Green Ingersoll"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Robert Green Ingersoll"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
Robert Green Ingersoll"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
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