Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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

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.

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

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.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

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

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.