Men Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll