All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — 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
