Robert Green Ingersoll

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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
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.
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.
Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

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