Some of the speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll. Great oratory from an age when oratory was prized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2662 Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. Not intended as oratory, but like Ingersoll's lectures, great fun to read aloud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine http://thomaspaine.org/major-works/the-age-of-reason-part-1.... (http://thomaspaine.org/major-works/the-age-of-reason-part-1.html) > But some, perhaps, will say: Are we to have no word of God—no revelation? I answer, Yes; there is a word of God; there is a revelation. THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man... The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed....
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