Robert G. Ingersoll Quote

"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.
Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon,
where the chained thoughts die with their pinions
pressed against the hingeless doors."

by:	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:	Lecture, 14 May 1866
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Categories:	Free Thought, Liberty
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Eloquently spoken truth  -- John Anderson, Tacoma, WA      1
I like it a lot. Poetically and in reality accurate.  -- Mike,, Norwalk      1
Ingersoll was a brilliant orator who could speak extemporaneously for hours in the days when those that mastered rhetoric ruled.  Would that we had such today.  -- E Archer, NYC
-- Abby

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