Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Robert Green Ingersoll

American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician

Alive from: 1833-1899

Category: Politics

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  Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

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  Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

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  Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

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  Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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  Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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  Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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  Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

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

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  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.

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  He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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  Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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  I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

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  I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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  If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

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