Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another life Copy Share Image
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good,… — Robert Green Ingersoll God Copy Share Image
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Balance Copy Share Image
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ceremony Copy Share Image
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art 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 Man Copy Share Image
If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron… — Robert Green Ingersoll Guardians Copy Share Image
Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Autumn Copy Share Image
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race… — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christian Copy Share Image
In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Caring Copy Share Image
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Eternal Copy Share Image
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who… — Robert Green Ingersoll Books Copy Share Image
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors… — Robert Green Ingersoll Darkness Copy Share Image
If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christ Copy Share Image
Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Painting 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 Children Copy Share Image
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll Church Copy Share Image
The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
