Robert Green Ingersoll Quotations

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.