Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
hope life
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
believe chance necessary present regard
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
mighty poor voiceless
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
He who does not want does not act.
happiness
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
burdens carried faults frailties george looked
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.
believes education freedom salvation
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
barred custom keeping keys locked
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
above duty living love sympathy
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
account against hold hypocrisy men people persist power religious
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
children good truth word
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.
If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.
cannot robe sharp thick
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.
honest man
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.