Children Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll