Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race… — 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
