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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

People Honor New First Remembered

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion Government World Church Our

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion Value Law Worth Argument

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Love Forgiveness Prayer Better Go

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lie Universe Will Never Anything

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Love Character Sympathy Living Duty

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Love Fear Men Gold Prejudice Malice

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Speak Think Labor Bread Well

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man King Brain Intellectual Reason

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Heart Tears Race She Through Her

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Mother Daughter Day Men Wife Woman

Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Men War Name You Find Will

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