Freedom Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the breath of progress.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty…

— Robert Green Ingersoll