Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — 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
Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — 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
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for… — 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
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
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened… — 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
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can,… — 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
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he… — 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
Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden.… — 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
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. — 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
