Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes
An American social activist, orator, and agnostic prominent during the Golden Age of Freethought.
(1833 - 1899)
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A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
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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.
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A good deed is the best prayer.
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A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
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A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
[God]
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
[Anger]
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
[Anger]
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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Every library is an arsenal.
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.
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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.
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