Our Friends Robert G Ingersoll Quotes
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~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
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.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
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.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
~ Rowbert G. Ingersoll Quote