Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as… — 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
