It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. — Robert Green Ingersoll Contempt Copy Share Image
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Hope Copy Share Image
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school. — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Adversity Copy Share Image
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Church Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ceremony Copy Share Image
I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Caring Copy Share Image
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Eternal Copy Share Image
When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ambition Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Arrogance Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Being honest Copy Share Image
The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bullying Copy Share Image
Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Contentment Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Agony Copy Share Image
I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Congregation Copy Share Image
