Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever… — 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
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of the family-the love of husband for wife, of wife for husband-the love of all for children. So that now the real religion is: Let us live for each other; let us live for this world without regard for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as… — 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
I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — 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
