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Quote from Robert G. Ingersoll,


"Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul."


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Robert G. Ingersoll (more quotes by Robert G. Ingersoll or books by/about Robert G. Ingersoll)


(1833-1899) American lawyer, Civil War veteran, political leader, orator of United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"

Source:

Speech, 'Plea for Individuality and Arraignment of the Church,' Delivered Before the Free Religious Society of Chicago, Dec. 21, 1873

Categories:

Conscience, Death, Free Thought, Reason, Slavery

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