I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. — Robert Green Ingersoll Facts Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ambition Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Accumulation Copy Share Image
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Book Copy Share Image
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind… — Robert Green Ingersoll Church 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
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Blessed Copy Share Image
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. — Robert Green Ingersoll Funny Copy Share Image
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. — Robert Green Ingersoll Experience Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll Adaptability Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Alive Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Civilization Copy Share Image
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 Atheism Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Equality Copy Share Image
Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Declaration of war Copy Share Image
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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