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Robert G. Ingersoll — Portrait after a picture by Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Robert G. Ingersoll

American lawyer, orator, and politician

1833–1899

25 quotes, most often on Anti-Religion, Freedom and Religion.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed.
In this creed there will be but one word — Liberty.
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Freedom
- Liberty
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all.
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Freedom
- Ideas
I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Freedom
There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed.
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Freedom

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