Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is… — 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
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — 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
