Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll Constitution Copy Share Image
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. — Robert Green Ingersoll Consequences Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll Blossoming Copy Share Image
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Animal Copy Share Image
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bitterness Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Affair Copy Share Image
Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored… — Robert Green Ingersoll Books Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ancient Copy Share Image
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. — Robert Green Ingersoll Argument Copy Share Image
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anti religious Copy Share Image
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them. — Robert Green Ingersoll Men Copy Share Image
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anti religious Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. — Robert Green Ingersoll Courage Copy Share Image
I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons. — Robert Green Ingersoll Cigar Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women. — Robert Green Ingersoll Feminism Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Army Copy Share Image
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image