If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
Robert Green IngersollI 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.
Robert Green IngersollThe ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.
Robert Green IngersollIf the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
Robert Green Ingersoll