Robert Green Ingersoll

Quotes

• “I do not borrow ideas. I have a factory of my own.”
• “A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth does not need the assistance of miracle. A fact will fit every other fact in the Universe, because it is the product of all other facts. A lie will fit nothing except another lie made for the express purpose of fitting it.”
• “An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
• “Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.”
• “Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and every maligner of his fair reputation.”
• “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?”

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Key facts

Preceded by

David B. Campbell (1848)

Succeeded by

Washington Bushnell

Born

Robert Green Ingersoll , ( 1833-08-11 ) August 11, 1833, Dresden, New York , U.S.

Died

July 21, 1899 (1899-07-21) (aged 65), Dobbs Ferry, New York , U.S.

Resting place

Arlington National Cemetery

Party

Republican

Spouse

Eva Parker Ingersoll

Children

Eva Ingersoll Brown , Maud Ingersoll Probasco

Relatives

Ebon Clarke Ingersoll (brother), Eva Ingersoll Wakefield (granddaughter)

Occupation

Politician, orator , lecturer

Period

19th century

Genre

Satire , essay , social commentary , political commentary , philosophical literature , biblical criticism

Subject

Freethought , agnosticism , humanism , abolitionism , women's rights

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