{"author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["law","political","people "],"id":35476,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Courage without conscience is a wild beast.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["wild","beast","conscience "],"id":40346,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["together","me","perfect "],"id":40839,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["eyes","man","blind "],"id":41915,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["courage","integrity","great "],"id":44282,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["time","space","stand "],"id":74407,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["suffering","reward "],"id":105943,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["liar","reputation","never "],"id":148820,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["time","happy","good "],"id":164065,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"},{"text":"As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.","author":"Robert Green Ingersoll","tags":["honesty","law","long "],"id":170753,"author_id":"Robert+Green+Ingersoll"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}