He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — 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 (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.… — 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