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.

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.

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

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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