Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

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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

Love, Heart, Eyes

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

Education, Sense, Times

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

Happiness, Time, Good

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

Courage, Heart, Greatest

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

Yourself, Human, Give

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion, Mankind, Slavery

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

Yourself, Human, Giving

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

Today, Old, Follow

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

Men, Doubt, Thought

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

Anger, Mind, Wind

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

Happiness, Suffering, Result

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

Truth, Lie, Another

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

Religion, Best, Hell

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Sunshine, Kindness, Virtue

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

Men, Courage, Death

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature, Nor, Neither

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

Happiness, Time, Good

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Gentleman, Bible

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

Age, Courage, Blessed

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

Hope, Liar, Reputation

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

Rights, Whose, Foot

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Logic, Malice, Insolence

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

Genius, Dangerous, Mediocrity

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage, Conscience, Wild

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: August 11, 1833

Died: July 21, 1899

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