The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — 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
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself.… — 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
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — 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 is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your… — 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
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty… — 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
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — 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 laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and… — 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
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