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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Weed, People, Growth
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Memories, Fall, Twilight
"The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll
World, Commodity, Adaptability
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Love Life, Character, Love Is
Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Sacred, Lips
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'

Robert Green Ingersoll
Death, Real, Believe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Interviews”

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty, Corporations, Harvest
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2317, Library of Alexandria

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Journey, Men, Giving
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4407, Library of Alexandria

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