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The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. Robert Green Ingersoll
World Books Worthless All The World Gems Shakespeare Sacred Glittering Stones Common Gold Compared
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth Man Liberty Light Will Long Flame Gave Others Torch Seeks Sacred Voltaire Lighted Still Shines Loves
If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. Robert Green Ingersoll
Matter Destroyed Must Indestructible Could Been Cannot Created
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. Robert Green Ingersoll
Painting Relation Statue Ideal Does Real Same Stone Sustains Realism Paint
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes. Robert Green Ingersoll
People Prosperity Wife Will Men Country Few Own Depend Defense Enough Our He House Make Glory Been His Few Men Owners Children Patriotic Patriots Boarding Shoulder Who Sat Homes Defend Number
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? Robert Green Ingersoll
Government Me You Balance Money Earth Out Collect Give Take Make Does Wants Taxes Us Why
The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. Robert Green Ingersoll
People Honor First Religious Maryland Remembered New First People Catholics Continent Were Eternal Declare Toleration Universal
Liberty is the breath of progress. Robert Green Ingersoll
Progress Liberty Breath
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. Robert Green Ingersoll
Property Men Few Own Rich Owns Them
There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance Slavery
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. Robert Green Ingersoll
God Forgiveness Me Pay Ten Smith Dollars Owe Forgives
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. Robert Green Ingersoll
Justice Eyes Long Remove Enough Distinguish Between Bandage Unfortunate Vicious Should Her
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. Robert Green Ingersoll
Mind Anchored Backward Develop Advance Go Decay Cannot Grow Shrink
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Robert Green Ingersoll
Soul Book World Free Every Investigate Freely Until Dogma Permitted Itself Cannot Creed
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. Robert Green Ingersoll
Time Matter Space Will Imagination Our We Cannot See Conceive Beyond Because Infinite Cannot Eternity Much Stand Farthest Cessation Star
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Become Rule Writers Authors Children
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Man People Genius Care Think Ancestors Has-Been Seem Small Select Most Does Said Been His Often Children Much Should Heredity
Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. Robert Green Ingersoll
Characters Seek Shakespeare Pursued He Put Wrong Highway His Did Where Right Position
The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. Robert Green Ingersoll
Love Wish Affection Live Immortality Rests Doctrine Human Therefore
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. Robert Green Ingersoll
Life Hope World Out Would See Come Like Dead Another How Am Things
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. Robert Green Ingersoll
Man People Neutrality Side Neither Would Rather Wrong Wrong Side Like Were Than American American People
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Injustice Impossible Will Poet Has-Been Kind Always Been Forever Any Form Produce Slavery
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. Robert Green Ingersoll
Love Art Home Song World Passion Every Purity Sacredness Builds Walt Walt Whitman Whitman Fills Defended
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. Robert Green Ingersoll
Work Word One Line Must Paragraph Tendency Writer He Line His Measured
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. Robert Green Ingersoll
Class Age Genius Every Books Respectable Real Opposed Governing Been Which Produced Works
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. Robert Green Ingersoll
Government People Simply Understand Officers American Many Servants
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