They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. Robert Green Ingersoll More Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll More Quotes From Robert Green Ingersoll Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything. Robert Green Ingersoll libertysake A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will. Robert Green Ingersoll miracleintelligentmen Nothing but truth is immortal. Robert Green Ingersoll immortaltruth-is There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. Robert Green Ingersoll learninglovebook We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased. Robert Green Ingersoll prejudicejudgingmen 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. Robert Green Ingersoll raw-materialsreligiousheaven Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. Robert Green Ingersoll vainliberty Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men. Robert Green Ingersoll racerightsmen Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Robert Green Ingersoll martyrtrue-or-falsesincerity No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature. Robert Green Ingersoll independentmiraclemen With soap, baptism is a good thing. Robert Green Ingersoll baptismatheistreligion Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. Robert Green Ingersoll armyhonestymen I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains. Robert Green Ingersoll passionstarsnight One man in the right will finally get to be a majority. Robert Green Ingersoll one-manmajoritymen The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. Robert Green Ingersoll hypocrisysuccessmen It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike. Robert Green Ingersoll godwantthinking Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. Robert Green Ingersoll creator-godatheismadd [T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor. Robert Green Ingersoll climbingflowermen All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress. Robert Green Ingersoll giving-upreligiousmen The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then? Robert Green Ingersoll mosaicsatheismchurch
