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Robert Green Ingersoll
American
Lawyer
About the author
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Liberty
#Earth
#Men
#Heaven
#Worship
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,
American
Lawyer
#Will
#Crime
#Thought
#Liberty
#Men
#Doubt
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Life
#Love
#Death
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Reason
#Science
#Observation
#Experience
#Trinity
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Bible
#Ignorance
#Gentleman
#Inspiration
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Miracles
#Ignorance
#Belief
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Right
#Man
#Civilization
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Nature
#Consequences
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Action
#World
#Road
#Holiness
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Love
#Hope
#Death
#Night
#Listening
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Clouds
#Mountains
#Eternity
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Genius
#Mediocrity
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Logic
#Malice
#Arguments
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,
American
Lawyer
#Age
#Individuality
#Courage
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Will
#Liberty
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Eyes
#Justice
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Heart
#Earth
#Losing
#Defeat
#Courage
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Church
#Heaven
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Reform
#Religion
#Slavery
#Mankind
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#God
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Time
#Now
#Happiness
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Hope
#Flowers
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Hell
#Religion
#Heaven
#Theology
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Virtue
#Kindness
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Education
#Common sense
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Old
#Habit
#Living
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,
American
Lawyer
#Strength
#Man
#Eyes
#Blind
#Providence
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#God
#Work
#Man
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Will
#Death
#Fear
#Honor
#Duty
#Fate
#Compromise
#Heroism
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,
American
Lawyer
#Love
#Heart
#Liberty
#Man
#Light
#Eyes
#Soul
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,
American
Lawyer
#Death
#Men
#Courage
#Thoughts
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Right
#Being
#Giving
#Tolerance
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Ignorance
#Slavery
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Men
#Property
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,
American
Lawyer
#God
#Poor
#Nations
#Heaven
#Gods
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Man
#Labor
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Conscience
#Courage
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Man
#Rights
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Anger
#Mind
#Wind
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Today
#Man
#Old
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Will
#Universe
#Truth
#Fact
#Lie
#Partnership
#Wonders
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Right
#Being
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Result
#Suffering
#Happiness
#Punishment
#Reward
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,
American
Lawyer
#Time
#Now
#Happiness
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Right
#Thought
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll,
American
Lawyer
#Hope
#Reputation