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 […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1872) Robert Green Ingersoll An honest God is the Noblest Work of Man. Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1898) Robert Green Ingersoll The average American, like the average man of any country, has but little imagination. People who speak a different language, or worship some other god, or wear clothing unlike his own, are beyond the horizon of his sympathy. He cares but little or […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1873) Robert Green Ingersoll “HIS SOUL WAS LIKE A STAR AND DWELT APART” On every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH. 1888 “Let determined things to destiny hold unbewailed their way.” There is a continual effort in the mind of man to find the harmony that he knows must exist between all known facts. It is hard for the scientist […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1877) Robert Green Ingersoll THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD LIBERTY SUSTAINS THE SAME RELATION TO MIND THAT SPACE DOES TO MATTER There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll GENERAL GRANT’S BIRTHDAY DINNER. New York, April 27, 1888. GEN. SHERMAN AND GENTLEMEN: I firmly believe that any nation great enough to produce and appreciate a great and splendid man is great enough to keep his memory green. No man admires more than […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll As I understand it, the United States went into this war against Spain in the cause of freedom. For three years Spain has been endeavoring to conquer these people. The means employed were savage. Hundreds of thousands were starved. Yet the Cubans, with great […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1892) Robert Green Ingersoll INTRODUCTION This is the famous Christmas Sermon written by Colonel Ingersoll and printed in the Evening Telegram, on December 19, 1891. In answer to this “Christmas Sermon” the Rev. Dr. J.M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate, the recognized organ of the Methodist […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1885) Robert Green Ingersoll We are told that we have in our possession the inspired will of God. What is meant by the word “inspired” is not exactly known; but whatever else it may mean, certainly it means that the “inspired” must be the true. If it […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1887) Robert Green Ingersoll A LIBERAL paper should be edited by a Liberal man. And by the word Liberal I mean, not only free, not only one who thinks for himself, not only one who has escaped from the prisons of customs and creed, but one […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll BORN of love and hope, of ecstasy and pain, of agony and fear, of tears and joy — dowered with the wealth of two united hearts — held in happy arms, with lips upon life’s drifted font, blue-veined and fair, where perfect peace finds […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll TRIAL OF C.B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY. ADDRESS TO THE JURY. GENTLEMEN of the Jury: I regard this as one of the most important cases that can be submitted to a jury. It is not a case that involves a little property, neither is it […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1881) Robert Green Ingersoll I have sometimes thought that it will not make great and splendid character to rock children in the cradle of hypocrisy. I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1876) Robert Green Ingersoll I AM just on my way home from the grand old State of Maine, and there has followed me a telegraphic dispatch which I will read to you. If it were not good, you may swear I would not read it: Every Congressional […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1883) Robert Green Ingersoll On the 22d of October, 1883, a vast number of citizens met at Lincoln Hall, Washington, D.C., to give expression to their views concerning the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in which it is held that the Civil Rights […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE. THE Old Testament must have been written nearly two thousand years before the invention of Printing. There were but few copies, and these were in the keeping of those whose interest might have prompted […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1877) Robert Green Ingersoll EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS I HAVE sometimes wondered whether our country was to be forever governed by parties full of hatred, full of malice, full of slander. I have sometimes wondered whether or not in the future there would not be discovered such […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll A discussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederick R. Coudert, Ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford, before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House, May 8, 1888. The points for discussion, as submitted in advance, were the following propositions: […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1883) Robert Green Ingersoll Question. The clergymen who have been interviewed, almost unanimously have declared that the church is suffering very little from the skepticism of the day, and that the influence of the scientific writers, whose opinions are regarded as atheistic or infidel, is not great; […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll HARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: — The lovers of the human race, the philanthropists, the dreamers of grand dreams, all predicted and all believed that when man should have the right to govern himself, when every human being should be […]