It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius. — 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
No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we… — 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
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
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — 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
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should… — 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
Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. — 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
![“Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.” quote by Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f49/robert-green-ingersoll-361_believe_where-is-the-soul-i-refuse-to-believe-an_755809.jpg)
