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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.

What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Liberty
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Intelligence
- Liberty
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
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Liberty

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