The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. — Robert Green Ingersoll Growth Copy Share Image
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Another world Copy Share Image
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another life Copy Share Image
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. — Robert Green Ingersoll Acquainted Copy Share Image
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. — Robert Green Ingersoll Alms Copy Share Image
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll Achievement Copy Share Image
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Braggarts Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Communication Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anxious Copy Share Image
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
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 Contentment Copy Share Image
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abuse Copy Share Image
