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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
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“What Ingersoll, like Voltaire and Paine before him, understood was the indivisibility of human rights, and he understood this not in spite of but precisely because of his disbelief in a deity who had supposedly “designed” the order of nature.”
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
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“However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
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“When the Constitution was being written in Philadelphia in 1787, only two decades had passed since the horrifying execution in France of nineteen-year-old Jean-François Lefevre, Chevalier de la Barre, for blasphemy—a case, publicized by Voltaire, that shocked the educated world.”
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
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