Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power abov ...

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is ...

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all ...

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do ...

Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of ...

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flour ...

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few m ...

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surrounding ...

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as ...

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.