Famous Robert Green Ingersoll Quotations

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"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labour of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"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."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"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."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"The triumph of justice is the only peace."
by Robert Green Ingersoll
"What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
by Robert Green Ingersoll


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