Ingersoll Quotes
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. Slavery includes all other crimes. It is the joint product of the kidnapper the pirate, thief, murderer and hypocrite. The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. We need free bodies and free minds - free labor and freethought, chainless hands and fetterless brains. Free labor will give us wealth. Freethought will give us truth. There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. (Paine limited it to 100 priests.) The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. Few men own their own property. The property owns them. No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use. Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship. Civilization was thrust into the brain of Europe on the point of a Moorish lance. I would like to see the whole world free - free from injustice - free from superstition.
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