Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.
Ingersoll, Robert G. "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume I: Lectures. Dresden ed., C.P. Farrell, 1900, p. 363.
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll was an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic". Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.