Honesty Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

8 Honesty quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll offers eight brief statements on honesty, each echoing his secular, rationalist philosophy. This compact set provides a quick look at his advocacy for truth free from dogma.

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

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Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

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I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock…

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The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the…

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It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less…

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As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as…

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When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself.…

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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest…

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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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