Robert Ingersoll's sparkling wit, lightning-bolt honesty, and vast love for humanity offered enormous RELIEF from religious force and fear in America's late 1800's.

Presented by Connie Cook Smith

Please note, most of the numbered tabs above take you to brief pages of direct quotes by Robert Ingersoll on those various subjects. My own essays are not numbered and are headed up with my byline, my name.

10. JUSTICE


There is something wrong in a society where they who do the most, have the least.  There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality wears a robe; when the loving and tender eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.