671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.