When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Facts Copy Share Image
Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Compromise Copy Share Image
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties… — Robert Green Ingersoll Heart Copy Share Image
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. — Robert Green Ingersoll Astrology Copy Share Image
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — 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 Athlete Copy Share Image
A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Aristocratic Copy Share Image
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bears Copy Share Image
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Courage Copy Share Image
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Criminals Copy Share Image
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ambition Copy Share Image
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. — Robert Green Ingersoll Affection Copy Share Image
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. — Robert Green Ingersoll Americans Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Argument 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 Liberty 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
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics — 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 Brain Copy Share Image
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Creed Copy Share Image
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Creed Copy Share Image
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like… — Robert Green Ingersoll Flower Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Assassins Copy Share Image
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — 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 Actor Copy Share Image
In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bastille Copy Share Image
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity — Robert Green Ingersoll Hope Copy Share Image
