An honest God is the noblest work of man.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
- Robert Green Ingersoll Quote