If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known,… — 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
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man… — 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
The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and… — 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
While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only… — 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or… — 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
The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. — 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
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