Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — 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