Top 175 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

About Robert Green Ingersoll

These are some quotes by American author Robert Green Ingersoll Lawyer, who lived between August 11, 1833 and July 21, 1899.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

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

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

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

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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