When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. -Robert Green Ingersoll Teacher
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. -Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness
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 Imagination
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. -Robert Green Ingersoll Courage
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. -Robert Green Ingersoll Death
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty. -Robert Green Ingersoll Death
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. -Robert Green Ingersoll Failure
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 Beauty
Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. -Robert Green Ingersoll Intelligence
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. -Robert Green Ingersoll Hope
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. -Robert Green Ingersoll Great
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. -Robert Green Ingersoll Veteransday
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. -Robert Green Ingersoll Fear
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -Robert Green Ingersoll Nature
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -Robert Green Ingersoll Courage
Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. -Robert Green Ingersoll Courage
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. -Robert Green Ingersoll Education
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. -Robert Green Ingersoll Great
I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. -Robert Green Ingersoll Men
