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No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much

No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Dog, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Life, Evil, Triumph
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Robert Green Ingersoll
Angel, Saws
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1076, Library of Alexandria

I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Running, Hate, Believe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Love, Crush, Bounds

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Genius, Debt
"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Sacrifice, Men, Blood
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Light, Torches
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.932, Library of Alexandria

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Mother, Children, Kindness
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Robert Green Ingersoll
People, Religion, Atheism

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Revenge, Believe, Hard Work
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2185, Library of Alexandria

Commerce is the great civilizer.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Commerce
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Hypocrite, Thinking, Atheism
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2195, Library of Alexandria

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Book, Vote
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1403, Library of Alexandria

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Heaven, World
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Doe, World
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2153, Library of Alexandria

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Way, Crosses, One Way
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

A good deed is the best prayer.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Prayer, Deeds, Good Deeds
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4651, Library of Alexandria

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Success, Men, Hypocrisy
Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Wise, Powerful, Pride
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

All religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheism, Slavery
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Years, Ignorant, Atheism
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.484, Library of Alexandria

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Inspirational, Ideas, Fabric
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness, Inner Peace, Way
Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.86

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty, Army, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1285, Library of Alexandria

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