He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
Robert Green Ingersoll
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope
Robert Green Ingersoll
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
Robert Green Ingersoll