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 […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1876) Robert Green Ingersoll NOTE: The nomination of Blaine was the passionately dramatic scene of the day. Robert G. Ingersoll had been fixed upon to present Blain’s name to the Convention, and, as the result proved, a more effective champion could not have been selected in the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll UNIVERSITIES are naturally conservative. They know that if suspected of being really scientific, orthodox Christians will keep their sons away, so they pander to the superstitions of the times. Most of the universities are exceedingly poor, and poverty is the enemy of independence. Universities, […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll There are many people, in all countries, who seem to enjoy individual and national decay. They love to prophesy the triumph of evil. They mistake the afternoon of their own lives for the evening of the world. To them everything has changed. Men are […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY. IN my judgment, no human being was ever made better, nobler, by being whipped or clubbed. Mr. Brockway, according to his own testimony, is simply a savage. He belongs to the Dark Ages — to the Inquisition, to […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1898) Robert Green Ingersoll I CONGRATULATE The Truth Seeker on its twenty-fifth birthday. It has fought a good fight. It has always been at the front. It has carried the flag, and its flag is a torch that sheds light. Twenty-five years ago the people of this […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1880) Robert Green Ingersoll LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Years ago I made up my mind that there was no particular argument in slander. I made up my mind that for parties, as well as for individuals, honesty in the long-run is the best policy. I made up my […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1874) Robert Green Ingersoll LIBERTY, A WORD WITHOUT WHICH ALL WORDS ARE VAIN. WHOEVER has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1891) Robert Green Ingersoll This unfinished and unrevised article was among Col. Ingersoll’s papers and is here reproduced without change. — It is a reply to the Dean of St. Paul’s Contribution to the North American Review for Dec., 1891, entitled: “Is Corporal Punishment Degrading?” ________ IS […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1889) Robert Green Ingersoll By Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Henry C. Potter, and Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. The attention of the public has been particularly directed of late to the abuses of divorce, and to the facilities afforded by the complexities of American law, and by the looseness […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll A FEW FRAGMENTS ON EXPANSION. A NATION rises from infancy to manhood and sinks from dotage to death. I think that the great Republic is in the morning of her life — the sun just above the horizon — the grass still wet with […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1898) Robert Green Ingersoll New York, November 26, 1898 MR.PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN OF THE CLUB — Boys: I congratulate all of you and I congratulate myself, and I will tell you why. In the first place, we were well born, and we were all born rich, all of […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1891) Robert Green Ingersoll I PRESUME I take about as much interest in what that picture represents as anybody else. I believe that it has been said this evening that the world will never be civilized so long as differences between nations are settled by gun or […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1880) Robert Green Ingersoll PREFACE If what is known as the Christian Religion is true, nothing can be more wonderful than the fact that Matthew, Mark and Luke say nothing about “salvation by faith;” that they do not even hint at the doctrine of the atonement, and […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll IF one wishes to know what orthodox religion really is — I mean that religion unsoftened by Infidelity, by doubt — let him read “John Ward, Preacher.” This book shows exactly what the love of God will do in the heart of man. This […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll FOR many centuries and by many millions of people, Christ has been worshiped as God. Millions and millions of eulogies on his character have been pronounced by priest and layman, in all of which his praises were measured only by the limitations of language […]
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 […]
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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. […]