People Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear…

— Robert Green Ingersoll