Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
born buried deeds grave hold men passions prejudices scales weighed
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.
forever form great impossible produce
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.
education god love spite
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.
age books governing opposed works
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
certain eats idleness man obligation
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
hope life
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
believe chance necessary present regard
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
mighty poor voiceless
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
He who does not want does not act.
happiness
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
burdens carried faults frailties george looked
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
believes education freedom salvation
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
barred custom keeping keys locked
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
above duty living love sympathy
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.