Robert Green Ingersoll

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would read more

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be read more

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of read more

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.