Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

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.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.