Quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

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.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.