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“Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.” quote by Robert Green Ingersoll — Download Open image

“Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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