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21. Robert G. Ingersoll

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 10:31 PM

Dec 2013

Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899) was a lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of United States during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_green_ingersoll.html

http://www.robertgreeningersoll.org/8-2/

And yes he was a Republican.

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