the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — 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
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
