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
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. — 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
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all… — 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
