Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
air eyes liberty light love lungs soul
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.
proves religion truth
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.
rooms
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
beggar care dies ditch good life love man success woman won
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
catholics continent declare eternal maryland people universal
The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor.
adoration ambition brain girl grandest herself himself improve love possibly splendid worthy
The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.
fascinates gives great man mind please suppress writers
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
cowards express infinite
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.
prayer noble answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
love-yourself love-you deny
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
ignorant horizon honest
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
republic introducing existence
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
motivational faith religious
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
common-sense superstitions epithet
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.