I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. — Robert Green Ingersoll Contempt Copy Share Image
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Hope Copy Share Image
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks… — Robert Green Ingersoll Disaster Copy Share Image
This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Attitude Copy Share Image
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Beyond the horizon Copy Share Image
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious… — Robert Green Ingersoll Fraud Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Arrogance Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Being honest Copy Share Image
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christian 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
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Care Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Life Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school. — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Adversity Copy Share Image
I found that the clergy did not understand their own book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Book Copy Share Image
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll Ancestor Copy Share Image
