Top 175 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

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

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

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.