Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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.

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

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

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

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

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

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

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.