671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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 there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

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.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.