Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only… — 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
