For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheist 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 Bread Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination — Robert Green Ingersoll Drunk Copy Share Image
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Fraud Copy Share Image
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Gold Copy Share Image
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Burden Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Acquisition Copy Share Image
When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. — Robert Green Ingersoll Heaven 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
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Darkness Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Catholicism Copy Share Image
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Constitution Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want… — Robert Green Ingersoll Community Copy Share Image
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — 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
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheist Copy Share Image
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Greatness Copy Share Image
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Childhood Copy Share Image
Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Danger Copy Share Image
