Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Robert Green Ingersoll quotes and sayings page 3 (lawyer). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 47 we have.

“Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.”

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”

“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”

“Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.”

“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”

“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”

“My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.”

“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.”