Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity… — 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
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which… — 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
