All Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
- A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. Atheist
- When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul,… All
- I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. Another World
- The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed… Act
- I am going to put the Bible out of business. Bible
- The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is… Addition
- I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color.… Accidents
- This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only… Creed
- The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. Bound
- We rise by lifting others. Helping
- Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and… Air
- Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy Blossoming
- In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. Age
- The triumph of justice is the only peace. Inspirational
- Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of… All
- It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. Alike
- The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which… All
- Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. Atheism
- The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. Achievement
- Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. Army
- I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That… Crime
- When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it… Best
- By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the… Doe
- Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a… Air
- There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. Been