Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 Copy Share Image
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
