Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll Nothing hurts a man, nothing hurts a party so terribly as fool friends. A fool friend is the sewer of bad news, of slander and all base and unpleasant things. A fool friend always knows every mean thing that has been said against you […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll New York, March 22, 1890 YOU have talked so much of old age and gray hairs and thin locks, so much about the past, that I feel sad. Now, I want to destroy the impression that baldness is a sign of age. The […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll I SUPPOSE the Government has a right to ask all of these questions, and any more it pleases, but undoubtedly the citizen would have the right to refuse to answer them. Originally the census was taken simply for the purpose of ascertaining the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1896) Robert Green Ingersoll I “There is no darkness but ignorance.” Every human being is a necessary product of conditions, and every one is born with defects for which he cannot be held responsible. Nature seems to care nothing for the individual, nothing for the species. Life […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll THERE is a desire in each brain to harmonize the knowledge that it has. If a man knows, or thinks he knows, a few facts, he will naturally use those facts for the purpose of determining the accuracy of his opinions on other […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll WHEN I was a child, I was taught that the Jews were an exceedingly hard-hearted and cruel people, and that they were so destitute of the finer feelings that they had a little while before that time crucified the only perfect man who had […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll PREFACE TO LITERE’S “FOR HER DAILY BREAD.” I HAVE read this story, this fragment of a life mingled with fragments of other lives, and have been pleased, interested, and instructed. It is filled with the pathos of truth, and has in it the humor […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll New York, December 27, 1890 TOAST Athletics among the Ancients THE first record of public games is found in the twenty-third Book of the Iliad. These games were performed at the funeral of Patroclus, and there were: First. A chariot race, and the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll One hundred years ago, our fathers retired the gods from politics. THE Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people. It is the embodiment of physical and moral courage […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1889) Robert Green Ingersoll In the February number of the Nineteenth Century, 1889, is an article by Professor Huxley, entitled “Agnosticism.” It seems that a church congress was held at Manchester in October, 1888, and that the Principal of King’s College brought the topic of Agnosticism before […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1891) Robert Green Ingersoll NOTE: The matchless eloquence of Ingersoll! Where will one look for the like of it? What other man living has the faculty of blending wit and humor, pathos and fact and logic with such exquisite grace, or with such impressive force? Senator […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll THE object of a trial is not to convict — neither is it to acquit. The object is to ascertain the truth by legal testimony and in accordance with law. In this country we give the accused the benefit of all reasonable doubts. We […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll A letter written to Col. Thomas Donaldson, of Philadelphia, declining an invitation to be a guest of the Clover Club of that city. Washington, D.C, January 16, 1883. CLOVER. — I regret that I cannot be “in clover with you on the 28th instant. […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1885) Robert Green Ingersoll PREFACE TO HELEN H. GARDENER’S NOTHING gives me more pleasure, nothing gives greater promise for the future, than the fact that woman is achieving intellectual and physical liberty. It is refreshing to know that here, in our country, there are thousands of women […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1879) Robert Green Ingersoll Chicago Times, 1879 To the Editor: Nothing is more gratifying than to see ideas that were received with scorn, flourishing in the sunshine of approval. Only a few weeks ago, I stated that the Bible was not inspired; that Moses was mistaken; that […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Improved Man (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll THE Improved Man will be in favor of universal liberty — that is to say, he will be opposed to all kings and nobles, to all privileged classes. He will give to all others the rights he claims for himself. He […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll DECORATION DAY ORATION. 1882. THIS day is sacred to our heroes dead. Upon their tombs we have lovingly laid the wealth of Spring. This is a day for memory and tears. A mighty Nation bends above its honored graves, and pays to noble dust […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: In the greatest tragedy that has ever been written by man — in the fourth scene of the third act — is the best prayer that I have ever read; and when I say “the greatest tragedy,” everybody familiar with Shakespeare […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE? THE object of the Freethinker is to ascertain the truth — the conditions of well-being — to the end that this life will be made of value. This is the affirmative, positive, and constructive side. Without liberty there […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll PREFACE TO PROF. VAN BUREN DENSLOW’S IF others who read this book get as much information as I did from the advance sheets, they will feel repaid a hundred times. It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1876) Robert Green Ingersoll Col. Robert G. Ingersoll spoke last night at the Exposition Building to the largest audience ever drawn by one man in Chicago. From 6:30 o’clock the sidewalks fronting along the building were jammed. At every entrance there were hundreds, and half-an-hour later thousands […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1868) Robert Green Ingersoll THE Democratic party, so-called, have several charges which they make against the Republican party. They give us a variety of reasons why the Republican party should no longer be entrusted with the control of this country. Among other reasons they say that the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll DECORATION DAY ORATION. 1888. THIS is a sacred day — a day for gratitude and love. To-day we commemorate more than independence, more than the birth of a nation, more than the fruits of the Revolution, more than physical progress, more than the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll Question. Have you any suggestions to make in regard to remodeling the libel laws? Answer. I believe that every article appearing in a paper should be signed by the writer. If it is libelous, then the writer and the publisher should both be […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1877) Robert Green Ingersoll Let them cover their Eyeless Sockets with their Fleshless Hands and fade forever from the imagination of Men. There are three theories by which men account for all phenomena, for everything that happens: First, the Supernatural; Second, the Supernatural and Natural; Third, the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1885) Robert Green Ingersoll I Happiness is the true end and aim of life. It is the task of intelligence to ascertain the conditions of happiness, and when found the truly wise will live in accordance with them. By happiness is meant not simply the joy of […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1881) Robert Green Ingersoll AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS. Brooklyn Eagle, 1881. Question. I understand, Colonel Ingersoll, that you have been indicted in the State of Delaware for the crime of blasphemy? Answer. Well, not exactly indicted. The Judge, who, I believe, is the Chief Justice […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1876) Robert Green Ingersoll Delivered to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FELLOW CITIZENS AND CITIZEN SOLDIERS: — I am opposed to the Democratic party, and I will tell you why. Every State that seceded from the United States was a Democratic State. Every […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1899) Robert Green Ingersoll I — If the Devil Should Die Would God Make Another? A little while ago I delivered a lecture on “Superstition,” in which, among other things, I said that the Christian world could not deny the existence of the Devil; that the Devil […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll I In the year 1855 the American people knew but little of books. Their ideals, their models, were English. Young and Pollok, Addison and Watts, were regarded as great poets. Some of the more reckless read Thomson’s “Seasons” and the poems and novels […]