Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — 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
While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — 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
