Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved. — Robert Green Ingersoll Inspirational Copy Share Image
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Attention Copy Share Image
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Heaven 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
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
Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five… — Robert Green Ingersoll Australia Copy Share Image
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bears Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absolute power 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
