Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child Quotes

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.