Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
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.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.
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.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
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.
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
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.
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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Lawyer
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11 August, 1833
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21 July, 1899
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