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Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Mother, Children, War
"Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll" by Robert Green Ingersoll, C. P. Farrell, (p. 341), 1914.

[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Flower, Men, Climbing
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2183, Library of Alexandria

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Two, Smoking, Cigar
Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Able, Infinite
Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Time, Past, Causes
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1178, Library of Alexandria

Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Love Is, Flames
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1985, Library of Alexandria

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Shadow, Debt, Fields
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.241, Library of Alexandria

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Love, Sad, Kings
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4677, Library of Alexandria

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Past, Brutality, Crime
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1841, Library of Alexandria

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Children, Father, Lying
Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Sad, Sympathy, Stars
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

Robert Green Ingersoll
Use, Action, Reason
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Philosophy, Passion, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Family, Children, Laughing
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Sorry, Religion, Wish
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2417, Library of Alexandria

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Would Be, Rooms
Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Fear, Hypocrisy, Soul
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.250, Library of Alexandria

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty, Sound, World
Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Hurt, People
"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Legal".

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Independence, Firsts
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Evil, Trouble, Infinite
Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Mother, Children, Believe

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Pride, Mules, Ancestry

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Children, Real, Inspiration
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Jesus, Believe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.895, Library of Alexandria

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