671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.