One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Chaos Copy Share Image
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties.… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Advancement Copy Share Image
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Eternity Copy Share Image
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Honesty Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abraham Copy Share Image
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brother Copy Share Image
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christ Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abhorrence Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anti religious Copy Share Image
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. — Robert Green Ingersoll Growth Copy Share Image
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. — Robert Green Ingersoll Fathers Copy Share Image
TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY, AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
