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Own Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have…
- The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the…
- As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own…
- The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform…
- It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience…
- It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, --…
- 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.
- Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
- The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
- Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every…
- No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of…
- It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
- Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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