671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

A good deed is the best prayer.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.