Great Speeches of Col. R. G. IngersollCosimo, Inc., 2009 M01 1 - 454 pages As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life.Considered in their day some of the finest gems of oratory, these lectures by Ingersoll feature some of his most entertaining and most insightful yet lesser known talks, including: "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln" "Grand Future of America" "Best Portion of the Earth" "Getting Up Early in the Morning" "The Fashions and Handsome Women" "What the Railroads Have Done" "How a Man Should Treat His Wife and Children" "Ingersoll's Beautiful Dream" "War to Be a Failure" "Sufferings of the Slaves" "The Question of Superiority" "What Is a Capitalist?" "The Government a Pauper" "Beware of Bachelors" and many more. |
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... worth more than gold . We say in this country that without liberty the Nation is not worth preserving . Now , I appeal to every poor man ; I appeal to - day to every laboring man , and I ask him : Is there another country on this globe ...
... worth more than gold . We say in this country that without liberty the Nation is not worth preserving . Now , I appeal to every poor man ; I appeal to - day to every laboring man , and I ask him : Is there another country on this globe ...
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... worth oi slaves in Deleware . The cost of car- rying on the war was at least two millions of dollars a day , and for one - third of one day's expenses all the slaves in Deleware could be purchased . He also showed that all the slaves in ...
... worth oi slaves in Deleware . The cost of car- rying on the war was at least two millions of dollars a day , and for one - third of one day's expenses all the slaves in Deleware could be purchased . He also showed that all the slaves in ...
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... worth living for , worth dying for . lived until he stood in the midst of universal joy , th the outstretched wings of peace the foremost In all the world . d then the horror came . Night fell on noon . The of the Republic , the breaker ...
... worth living for , worth dying for . lived until he stood in the midst of universal joy , th the outstretched wings of peace the foremost In all the world . d then the horror came . Night fell on noon . The of the Republic , the breaker ...
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... standing straight in the sun , just the same as though he were white and worth a million . All who stand beneath our banner are free . Ours is nly flag that has in reality written upon it : DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 69.
... standing straight in the sun , just the same as though he were white and worth a million . All who stand beneath our banner are free . Ours is nly flag that has in reality written upon it : DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 69.
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... worth living for . unsocial are the enemies of joy . They are filled egotism and envy , with vanity and hatred . People ive much alone become narrow and suspicious . are apt to be the property of one idea . nk there is no use in ...
... worth living for . unsocial are the enemies of joy . They are filled egotism and envy , with vanity and hatred . People ive much alone become narrow and suspicious . are apt to be the property of one idea . nk there is no use in ...
Contents
86 | |
gersoll on Cookery | 92 |
INATING BLAINE | 100 |
hy the Colonel is a Republican | 108 |
gersolls Remarkable Vision | 115 |
e Money Question | 121 |
gersolls Beautiful Dream | 129 |
ne American Republic | 136 |
ne Way Out | 244 |
ORATION AT A CHILDS GRAVE | 253 |
OUR COUNTRY | 265 |
INGERSOLL ON AMERICAN NATIONALITY | 288 |
o Preserve Slavery | 293 |
e Solid South | 306 |
ate Sovereignty | 327 |
THE NORTH AND SOUTH | 341 |
braham Lincoln | 142 |
ne Republican Platform | 148 |
SPEECH TO VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS | 167 |
e Must Stand by the Party | 209 |
A FOR HONEST MONEY | 217 |
OR CAPITAL ETC | 225 |
erchants and Drummers | 232 |
Not Preaching a Gospel of Hate | 382 |
FIAT MONEY | 404 |
MONEY AND PROTECTION | 411 |
onor Versus Fraud | 428 |
ant Business Not Charity | 434 |
usts and Syndicates | 440 |
epublican Party for Labor | 446 |
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