Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Independence
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.
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Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.
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Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.
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The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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