For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheist Copy Share Image
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bread Copy Share Image
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll Age 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 Books 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 Benediction Copy Share Image
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. — Robert Green Ingersoll Book Copy Share Image
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christianity Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Freedom 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
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
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Benevolence Copy Share Image
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Company Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor… — Robert Green Ingersoll Endeavor Copy Share Image
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll Differences Copy Share Image
I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining… — Robert Green Ingersoll Change Copy Share Image
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god — Robert Green Ingersoll God Copy Share Image
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply… — Robert Green Ingersoll Falsehood Copy Share Image
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Effort Copy Share Image
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations… — Robert Green Ingersoll Education 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 Barbarism Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Government Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anarchy Copy Share Image
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another life Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. — Robert Green Ingersoll College Copy Share Image
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Greatness Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Danger Copy Share Image
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which… — Robert Green Ingersoll Consequences Copy Share Image
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Advancement Copy Share Image
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