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Robert G. Ingersoll was an American lawyer, orator, and outspoken advocate of free thought and secularism. Nicknamed "The Great Agnostic," his speeches and writings challenged religious orthodoxy and promoted intellectual freedom. He inspired generations through his eloquence and commitment to reason. Here are 590 of his quotes:
I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes; I would rather have lived in a hut, with a vine growing over the door and the grapes growing and ripening in the autumn sun; I would rather have been that peasant, with my wife by my side and my children upon my knees, twining their arms of affection about me; I would rather have been that poor French peasant and gone down at last to the eternal promiscuity of the dust, followed by those who loved me; I would a thousand times rather have been that French peasant than that imperial personative of force and murder; and so I would -ten thousand thousand times.
Robert G. Ingersoll
I happened to be in the company of six or seven Baptist elders-how I ever got into such bad company, I don't know,-and one of them asked what I thought about baptism. Well, I never thought much about it; did not know much about it; didn't want to say anything, but they insisted upon it. I said, "Well, I'll give you my opinion-with soap, baptism is a good thing.”.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll
Occupation: American Lawyer
Born: August 11, 1833
Died: July 21, 1899
Quotes count: 590
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