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
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — 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
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — 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
Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. — 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
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and… — 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
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — 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
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the… — 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
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
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — 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… — 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
Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the… — 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
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
