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
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
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
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
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
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles… — 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
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
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
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
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
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — 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 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 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
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — 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 we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever… — 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 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
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
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for… — 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