Fear is religion, courage is science.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, wi…

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

- Robert Green Ingersoll