There is something wrong in a government where those who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Robert Ingersoll Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email