671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.