Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything. — Robert Green Ingersoll Freedom Copy Share Image
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Darwin Copy Share Image
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. — Robert Green Ingersoll Civility Copy Share Image
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. — Robert Green Ingersoll Academy Copy Share Image
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Ancestry Copy Share Image
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. — Robert Green Ingersoll Mankind Copy Share Image
The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den… — Robert Green Ingersoll Beast Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll Candidate Copy Share Image
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Chaos Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences… — Robert Green Ingersoll Advancement Copy Share Image
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Eternity Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abraham Copy Share Image
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Advancement Copy Share Image
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brother Copy Share Image
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future — Robert Green Ingersoll Old testament Copy Share Image
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Gardening Copy Share Image
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. — Robert Green Ingersoll Compulsion Copy Share Image
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age. — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. — Robert Green Ingersoll Greatness Copy Share Image
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Blasphemy Copy Share Image
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Evil Copy Share Image
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Being Copy Share Image
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for. — Robert Green Ingersoll Asylums Copy Share Image
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
