I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
