Top 175 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

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.

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.