Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

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• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdit

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the s

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious