Gold Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

9 Gold quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll’s nine short reflections on gold combine rational thought with moral insight. Their concise phrasing offers a thoughtful, secular take on value.

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Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the…

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Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

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The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

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The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by…

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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue…

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It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide…

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I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every…

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The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses…

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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue…

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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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

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

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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