Robert Green Ingersoll

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing discloses character like the use of power.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science…

— Robert Green Ingersoll