Best quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll on Man

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  • Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
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  • Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • An honest God is the noblest work of man.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll
  • The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll