Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

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 more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll
Courage quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll, UberQuotes

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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 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

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll