I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Childhood Copy Share Image
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the… — 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
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would… — Robert Green Ingersoll Communication Copy Share Image
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people… — Robert Green Ingersoll Attraction Copy Share Image
I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Adventure Copy Share Image
I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bears Copy Share Image
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Breaking hearts Copy Share Image
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Catholicism 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
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Darkness Copy Share Image
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheist Copy Share Image
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want… — Robert Green Ingersoll Community Copy Share Image
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Constitution Copy Share Image
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
