If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the… — 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 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 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
I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find… — 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
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no… — 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
