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To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the consolation of the world. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Intelligence is the only moral guide. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith. — Robert G. Ingersoll

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation ... — Robert Green Ingersoll

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — Robert Green Ingersoll

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds. — Robert G. Ingersoll

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. — 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

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Commerce is the great civilizer. — Robert Green Ingersoll

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. — 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 famine! — Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert G. Ingersoll

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.

{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian
it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. — Robert Green Ingersoll

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? — Robert G. Ingersoll

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men - nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination — Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

We rise by lifting others. — Robert G. Ingersoll

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The triumph of justice is the only peace. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Love your friends and be just to your enemies. — Robert Green Ingersoll

With soap, baptism is a good thing. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. — Robert Green Ingersoll

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no slavery but ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense. — Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The people were taught that the record was inspired, and therefore true. They were not taught that it was true, and therefore inspired. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests? — Robert Green Ingersoll

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll