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Danh ngôn của Robert Green Ingersoll (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.