Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. — Robert Green Ingersoll Americans Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. — Robert Green Ingersoll Affection Copy Share Image
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll Church Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Angel Copy Share Image
An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching… — Robert Green Ingersoll Beast Copy Share Image
Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christ Copy Share Image
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Painting Copy Share Image
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors… — Robert Green Ingersoll Darkness Copy Share Image
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who… — Robert Green Ingersoll Books Copy Share Image
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Criminals Copy Share Image
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ambition Copy Share Image
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. — Robert Green Ingersoll Astrology Copy Share Image
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Courage Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Compromise Copy Share Image
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties… — Robert Green Ingersoll Heart Copy Share Image
When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Facts Copy Share Image
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Heaven Copy Share Image
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Argument Copy Share Image
I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its… — Robert Green Ingersoll Being Copy Share Image
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another life Copy Share Image
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Jehovah Copy Share Image
