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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes | Quotes said by Robert Green Ingersoll

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #1

    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 Quote #2

    A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #3

    A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #4

    Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #5

    As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #6

    Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #7

    Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #8

    Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #9

    Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #10

    Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #11

    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 #12

    He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #13

    Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #14

    Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #15

    I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #16

    I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #17

    I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #18

    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 #19

    I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #20

    If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #21

    In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #22

    Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #23

    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 #24

    It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #25

    It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #26

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

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #27

    Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #28

    Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #29

    Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll Quote #30

    The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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