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Letter "R" » Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
«If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Astrology
| Keywords:
astrology, enlightened, flourish, perish
«I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
accordance, admit, finally, formed, vote, voted
«The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure»
«If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Catholicism
| Keywords:
Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, gathered, High Church, monument, pyramid, Pyramids, The Catholic, The Pyramids, The Victims, victims
«Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, ashes, Church A, constitution, once more, priceless, The Church, The Sword, turn to
«The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
confers, declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, denial, denial of, dogma, infamous, The Declaration of Independence
«Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Religion
| Keywords:
Calvin, copied, detestable, erecting, existed, modeled, Old Testament, succeeded, testament, theocracy
«In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, crowned head, crowns, heads, hypocrites, kings, priests, thieves, thieving
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
account, advocate, advocated, advocating, after all, ears, First to, Genesis, Give Me Liberty, human ear, sacred, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, serpent, thank, The Advocate, whisper
«Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
incomprehensible, miraculous, supernatural, supernatural being, The Church, unknowable, unreasonable, vacuum
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