Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. — Robert Green Ingersoll Compulsion Copy Share Image
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. — Robert Green Ingersoll Greatness Copy Share Image
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age. — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Blasphemy Copy Share Image
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Gardening Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Barbarism Copy Share Image
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christian life Copy Share Image
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. — Robert Green Ingersoll Democracy Copy Share Image
If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Creed Copy Share Image
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ashamed Copy Share Image
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Boarding house Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Blindness Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future — Robert Green Ingersoll Old testament Copy Share Image
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. — Robert Green Ingersoll Mankind Copy Share Image
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Evil Copy Share Image
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others. — 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 Creed Copy Share Image
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Enemies Copy Share Image
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character 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 Another world Copy Share Image
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
