I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it… — 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
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — 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
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very… — 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
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the… — 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 good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business… — 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
