Great Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

15 Great quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll’s rational yet poetic voice tackles greatness with a blend of skepticism and optimism. In these 15 lines you’ll find a balanced, intellectual encouragement to aim higher.

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Commerce is the great civilizer.

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It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great…

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A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

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The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

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In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which…

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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he…

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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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The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please…

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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…

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Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor…

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

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The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled…

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Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and…

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The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored…

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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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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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