Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. — Robert Green Ingersoll Argument Copy Share Image
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anti religious Copy Share Image
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them. — Robert Green Ingersoll Men Copy Share Image
Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. — Robert Green Ingersoll Funny Copy Share Image
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. — Robert Green Ingersoll Facts Copy Share Image
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Equality Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Civilization Copy Share Image
And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good,… — Robert Green Ingersoll God Copy Share Image
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Balance Copy Share Image
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Church Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Demonstration Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Freedom Copy Share Image
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll Adaptability Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. — Robert Green Ingersoll Experience Copy Share Image
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Dyspepsia Copy Share Image
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime. — Robert Green Ingersoll Comedy Copy Share Image