Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899)

"Happiness is the only good."

Celebrating the life and works of the 19th century's most famous orator, freethinker, and champion of human liberty.

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"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

— The Creed of Science

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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."

— The Christian Religion

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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color."

— Liberty

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