Books Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

— Robert Green Ingersoll