More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. Give your sons and daughters every advantage within your power. In the air of kindness they will grow about you like flowers. They will fil…
  2. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
  3. Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
  4. He who puts chains upon the body of another shackles his own soul.
  5. From the aspersions of, the pulpit, from the slanders of the church, I seek to rescue the reputation of the Deity.
  6. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.
  7. Force has no place in the world of love. It is impossible to control likes and dislikes by law. No one ever did and no one ever can love on…
  8. How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man wh…

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