The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue – or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, ‘I will make her happy,’ makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, ‘I will make him happy.’ Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead. Robert Green Ingersoll Read Quote
