Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 11

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Integrity, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, War

  "Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll" by Robert Green Ingersoll, C. P. Farrell, (p. 341), 1914.

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• [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

  Flower, Men, Climbing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2183, Library of Alexandria

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• I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Smoking, Cigar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Able, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Time, Past, Causes

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1178, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Love Is, Flames

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1985, Library of Alexandria

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• A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Shadow, Debt, Fields

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.241, Library of Alexandria

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Sad, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4677, Library of Alexandria

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• He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Past, Brutality, Crime

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1841, Library of Alexandria

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Use, Action, Reason

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Family, Children, Laughing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

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• The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sorry, Religion, Wish

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2417, Library of Alexandria

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• If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Would Be, Rooms

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fear, Hypocrisy, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.250, Library of Alexandria

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• Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liberty, Sound, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Hurt, People

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Legal".

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• The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Independence, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Evil, Trouble, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

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• Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pride, Mules, Ancestry

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• They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Jesus, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.895, Library of Alexandria

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• A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Real, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

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