Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.