Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 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
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — 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
