The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

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• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and que

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as lo

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and al

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fath

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, yo

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and

• Robert Green Ingersoll:

  A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child t