Top 175 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

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

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.