671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

Death is only perfect rest.

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.