Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — 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
As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest… — 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
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
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — 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
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
