671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.