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.

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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 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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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