Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I would like to see all editors of papers and magazines agree to print the truth and nothing but the truth, to avoid all slander and misrepresentation, and to let the private affairs of the people alone.
- Robert G. Ingersoll, What I Want for Christmas

For many centuries the sword and cross were allies. Together they attacked the rights of man. They defended each other.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

I would like to see a fair division of profits between capital and labor, so that the toiler could save enough to mingle a little June with the December of his life.
- Robert G. Ingersoll, What I Want for Christmas

Civilization was thrust into the brain of Europe on the point of a Moorish lance.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

Few rich men own their property; the property owns them.
- Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.
- Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon