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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Mankind
#Never
#Reform
#Religion
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Anything
#Family
#Good
#Government
#Up
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
#Consequences
#Courage
#Fear
#Man
#Soul
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Blessed
#Brave
#School
#Teacher
#Truth
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
#Courage
#Great
#Integrity
#Intelligence
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Darkness
#Home
#Joy
#Light
#World
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Anything
#Believe
#Chance
#Past
#Present
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.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Beauty
#Oak
#Poetry
#Rude
#Truth
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Candidate
#Government
#Should
#Sight
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
#Disaster
#Failure
#Fear
#Right
#Success
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Beast
#Conscience
#Courage
#Wild
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Imagination
#Matter
#Space
#Stand
#Time
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
#Fraud
#Me
#Religion
#Truth
#World
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
#Brave
#Find
#Free
#Man
#Nature
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
#Honesty
#Intelligence
#Law
#Long
#Stand
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Go
#Intelligence
#Me
#Perfect
#Together
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
#Courage
#Death
#Men
#Real
#Thoughts
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Death
#King
#Life
#Love Is
#Love
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
#Blessed
#Courage
#Enough
#Stand
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Be Happy
#Happy
#Now
#Place
#Time
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
#Blind
#Eyes
#Man
#Others
#Strength
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Facts
#Miracles
#Religion
#Science
#Will
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Duty
#Feel
#Go
#Past
#Religion
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Best
#Heaven
#Hell
#Religion
#Worst
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Human Being
#Human
#Right
#You
#Yourself
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Art
#Freedom
#Great
#Man
#Struggle
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
#Better
#Forgiveness
#Love
#Never
#Prayer
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Anything
#Human
#Me
#More
#Sympathy
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Character
#Duty
#Living
#Love
#Sympathy
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#I Am
#Inferior
#Legal
#Man
#Rights
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
#Independence
#Law
#People
#Political
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Hope
#Liar
#Never
#Reputation
#Universal
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Away
#Freedom
#Liberty
#More
#Will
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
#Eyes
#Freedom
#Love Is
#Love
#Soul
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Forgiveness
#God
#Me
#Owe
#Pay
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Human Being
#Human
#Tolerance
#Yourself
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Grows
#Kindness
#Sunshine
#Virtue
#Which
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Happiness
#Punishment
#Result
#Reward
#Suffering
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Darkness
#Great Man
#Great
#Man
#Night
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Clouds
#Eternity
#Presence
#Transient
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
#Great Man
#Great
#Happiness
#Man
#Truth
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Death
#Fate
#Fear
#Honor
#Veterans Day
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Experience
#Observation
#Reason
#Science
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Adversity
#Man
#People
#Power
#Wish
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Consequences
#Nature
#Neither
#Rewards
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Bee
#Flowers
#Honey
#Hope
#Without
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
#Good
#Happiness
#Place
#Time
#Way
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Better
#Common Sense
#Education
#Sense
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Death
#Hope
#Listening
#Love
#Night
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Courage
#Defeat
#Earth
#Heart
#Losing
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Anger
#Lamp
#Mind
#Which
#Wind
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