To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. — Robert Green Ingersoll Life Copy Share Image
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Celibacy Copy Share Image
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Arrogance Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. — Robert Green Ingersoll Dollars Copy Share Image
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll Blossoming Copy Share Image
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bitterness Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences… — Robert Green Ingersoll Advancement Copy Share Image
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll Candidate Copy Share Image
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, 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
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ancient 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
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — Robert Green Ingersoll Breathing life Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Altars Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Alive Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Altars Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ambition Copy Share Image
They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
