Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

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Robert Green Ingersoll

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : August 11, 1833

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

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 want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

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

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

Robert Green Ingersoll