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
Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. — Robert Green Ingersoll Democracy 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
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
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
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Advantage 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Compassion Copy Share Image
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Accomplishment Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ancestors Copy Share Image
If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the… — 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 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
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll Achievement Copy Share Image
The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Damnation Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak — Robert Green Ingersoll Heresy Copy Share Image
Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another life Copy Share Image
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. — Robert Green Ingersoll Acquainted Copy Share Image
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. — Robert Green Ingersoll Alms 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
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
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
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination — Robert Green Ingersoll Drunk Copy Share Image
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the… — 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 Gold Copy Share Image
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Fraud Copy Share Image
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. — Robert Green Ingersoll Heaven Copy Share Image
