Robert Ingersoll

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - the best brain.

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.

One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.

. . . the hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.