Robert Ingersoll

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
Robert Ingersoll - On Isadora Duncan
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll - ?What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

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

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Ingersoll - The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments"
There is no slavery but ignorance.

- Robert Ingersoll