Quote: 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 Ingersoll]
Quote: The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: The more liberty you give away the more you will have. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: 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. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Courage without conscience is a wild beast. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. [Robert Ingersoll]
Quote: Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought... [Robert Ingersoll]