Robert Green Ingersoll : (8)

" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" I can imagine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power – far from the demands of business – out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" If the guardians of society, the protectors of ‘young persons,’ could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. " - Robert Green Ingersoll

" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. " - Robert Green Ingersoll