“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.”
Robert Green Ingersoll“Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.”
Robert Green Ingersoll