Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Every man that lowered our flag was a Democrat.... Every preacher that said slavery was a divine institution was a Democrat. Recollect it! Every man that shot a Union soldier was a Democrat. Every wound borne by you Union soldiers is a souvenir of a Democrat.

You will be well advised to infect the Indians with sheets upon which smallpox patients have been lying, or by any other means which may serve to exterminate this accursed race.

It is my purpose nowhere in these remarks to make personal reproaches; I entertain no ill-will toward any human being, nor any brute, that I know of, not even the [Democratic] skunk across the way to which I referred. Least of all would I reproach the South. I honor her courage and fidelity. Even in a bad, a wicked cause, she shows a united front. All her sons are faithful to the cause of human bondage, because it is their cause. But the North—the poor, timid, mercenary, driveling North—has no such united defenders of her cause, although it is the cause of human liberty ... She is offered up a sacrifice to propitiate southern tyranny—to conciliate southern treason.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Bio-terrorism is a threat.

In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job some Republican wants.

I am a Democrat still—very still.

My family [old-line Nebraska Republicans] can't figure out which is worse, being a Democrat or being an attorney.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

I suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

The mosquito has killed more people than anything else in history.

I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

Everything looks bright for us. The Democrats of the North are helping us by their speeches.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

I come from a long line of Democrats.

Republicans believe that tax cuts can build buildings, all sorts of miraculous things. A lot of Democrats and liberals believe that spending more money in a school is going to up the test scores, no matter how much evidence there is that it won't, or hasn't.

I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led 'Democrats for Nixon.'

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

Think about old people; think about young people, those with immune system problems. They can't really protect themselves well against the flu, so by you limiting the spread of the flu and getting vaccinated, you're helping protect them as well.

As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.