I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.' — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — 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
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved. — 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
