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
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it… — 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
I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — 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
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — 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
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
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
