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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
«Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
And Justice For All, bandage, bandaged, bandages, distinguish, do justice, justice, justices, remove, unfortunate, unfortunates, vicious
«A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Facts,
Lies,
Miracles,
Partnership,
Truth
| Keywords:
assistance, scorns, wonders
«There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsis»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
demonstration, demonstrations, dread, hater, haters, hypocrisy, relentless, sincere, superstition
«Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Imprisonment
| Keywords:
culprit, culprits, defending, hired, imprisonment, pillory, pulpit, pulpits
«The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own»
«The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Historians,
Religion
| Keywords:
conduce, conduced, conduces, discredit, discredited, Eusebius, ingenuously, omitted, piously, tended, tended to
«There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished»
«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»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
accordance, act of God, certainly, punish