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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Born: Aug 11, 1833
Died: Jul 21, 1899
Every Love Man Will World You
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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
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness Matter Field Those Dreary He Himself Labors Shop Whether Loves Whoever Works
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. Robert Green Ingersoll
Conflict Charity Men Scales Born Weighed Passions Buried Hold Which Should Prejudices Deeds Grave
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
Great Man Integrity Courage Intelligence Honor Will Free Nation State Independent Citizens Above Support Force Pillars Intellectual Brave Should
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead. Robert Green Ingersoll
Long Prison Dust Keys Those Locked Dead Were Which Custom Barred Who Keeping
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. Robert Green Ingersoll
Me Will Hell Live Thinking Rather Perdition Takes Without Go Go To Hell Accordance Than Heaven Then Standard Reason
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. Robert Green Ingersoll
Life Religion Humanity Nothing Conviction Else Divine Intellectual Theory
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. Robert Green Ingersoll
You Change Men Before Physically Intellectually Them
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. Robert Green Ingersoll
Man Every Fathers Out Find Comprehend Puritan Write Allowed Know Him Read Glory How His Capacity Should Believed Every Man
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
Love Forgiveness Prayer Better Ought Carry Must Never Knives Partnership Shell Go Behind Cannon Shot Uttered Need
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
Me You Animals Sympathy Else Say Distinguishes More Beasts Than Human Anything Anything Else Lower
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. Robert Green Ingersoll
Life Good Character Walls Edifice Grand Worked Good Character
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty Intelligence Law Will Long Country Sit Bench Honestly Respected Laws Shall Redress Courts Get Enforced Stand Chairs
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion Past Duty Christian System Neither Feel Partnership Go His Any Barbarism Should Defend Savagery
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. Robert Green Ingersoll
Day Man Woman Generation Mother Wife Men Daughter Find More He Greater Estimate Grander Meanest Lowest Thinks
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