Top 175 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

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.