Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — 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
