Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Born: Aug 11, 1833
Died: Jul 21, 1899
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert Green Ingersoll
Heart Courage Losing Defeat Earth Bear Without Greatest Test
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness Truth Great Man Others Great Man Seek Seeks Gives He Road Does Place Applause
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Green Ingersoll
You Yourself Human Being Giving Tolerance Every Other Claim Human Being Right
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger Mind Wind Lamp Out Blows Which
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness Time Good Be Happy Happy Others Way Only Make Place Now Here
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Man Darkness Torch Great Man Beacon Prophecy Inspiration Superstition Night
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll
Clouds Mountains Transient Eternity Presence
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
Education Better Sense Thousand Thousand Times Without Times Than Common Common Sense
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. Robert Green Ingersoll
People Voting Will Men Long Hypocrisy Power Religious Religious Views Account Persist Just Hold Place Against Views
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. Robert Green Ingersoll
Time Be Happy Happy Place Now Here
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green Ingersoll
Death Veterans Day Fate Fear Honor Will Duty Down Gauntlet Heroism Compromise Throws
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites. Robert Green Ingersoll
Will Thought Become Cowards Satisfied Think Worship Say Followers Never Hypocrites Investigators He His Infinite Heaven Being Us Each Express Let Us Each One
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Green Ingersoll
You Yourself Human Being Every Claim Give Human Being Right
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty Men Earth Tyrant Worship Heaven While Little
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty Enemies Power Mistakes Pandering Passions Gain Prejudices Who Multitude Applause
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth Teacher School Church Will Poet Blessed Become Every Philanthropist Philosopher Dream Clergyman Until Cathedral Becomes Real Brave Patriot Then Thinkers Honest University
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. Robert Green Ingersoll
Strength Man Eyes Superior Bending Others Weak Above Superior Man Rises Lifting He Blind Fallen Shield Erect Providence Inferior Stands
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. Robert Green Ingersoll
Heart Hide Sometimes Bitterness Neutrality Mask Nothing Hides Both Generally Head Unusual Always Used Stands
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll
Colleges Polished Diamonds Where Places Pebbles
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert Green Ingersoll
Love Death Hope Listening Wing Rustle Sees Hear Star Night
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. Robert Green Ingersoll
Change Cowardly Crimes Air Most Executioner Perjury Common Meanest Breathe Axe
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous. Robert Green Ingersoll
Government Good Family Made Every Destroy Tends Perfectly Devilish Infamous Up Families Anything Unit Good Government
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. Robert Green Ingersoll
Man Rights Rebellion Liberty Side Drawn Give Protect Him Am His Just Wherever Rebel Sword
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness Suffering Result Reward Punishment Consequence
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success. Robert Green Ingersoll
Life Success Love Good Man Woman World Care Has-Been Ditch He Been His Won Beggar Dies Really Who
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth Religion Me World Every Other Others Tell Fraud About Proves
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