Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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.

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.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.