The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — 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
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — 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
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does… — 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
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — 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
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
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
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
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
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — 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
