Robert G. Ingersoll: Trending quotes (page 12)
Robert G. Ingersoll trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.”
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: It is impossible that there should be such a thing as real religion without liberty. Without liberty there can be no such thing as conscience, no such word as justice. All human actions — all good, all bad — have for a foundation the idea of human liberty, and without Liberty there can be no vice, and there can be no virtue.
Without Liberty there can be no worship, no blasphemy — no love, no hatred, no justice, no progress.
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds — but with that word realized — with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
Context: Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
If another man has not the right to think, you have not even the right to think that he thinks wrong. If every man has not the right to think, the people of New Jersey had no right to make a statute, or to adopt a constitution — no jury has the right to render a verdict, and no court to pass its sentence.
In other words, without liberty of thought, no human being has the right to form a judgment. It is impossible that there should be such a thing as real religion without liberty. Without liberty there can be no such thing as conscience, no such word as justice. All human actions — all good, all bad — have for a foundation the idea of human liberty, and without Liberty there can be no vice, and there can be no virtue.
Without Liberty there can be no worship, no blasphemy — no love, no hatred, no justice, no progress.
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds — but with that word realized — with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
Liberty.
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IX
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
“Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity.”
Rome, or Reason?, p. 61 http://www.archive.org/stream/thegreatcontrove00ingeuoft/thegreatcontrove00ingeuoft_djvu.txt
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
“The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.”
What Is Religion? (1899) is Ingersoll's last public address, delivered before the American Free Religious association, Boston, June 2, 1899. Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Memorial Edition Volume IV, pages 477-508, edited by Cliff Walker. http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/ingwhatrel.htm
Variant: The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)