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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Respect, Rights, Giving
"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Giving, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty
Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Miscellany”

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Rights, Giving
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.196, Library of Alexandria

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Science, Engineering, Giving
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.67, Library of Alexandria

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Giving, Charity, Natural
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.947, Library of Alexandria

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Giving Up, Giving, Individuality
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Doors, Giving, Heaven
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Thinking, Giving, Support
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2425, Library of Alexandria

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Fire, Giving, Long
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.119, Library of Alexandria

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Giving, Liberty
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Thinking, Years, Giving

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Giving, Abuse, Logic
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3823, Library of Alexandria

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance, Eden, Giving
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, People, Giving
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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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