Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full against the brazen forehead of every traitor to this country and every maligner of his fair reputation.
Thereafter, Blaine was known as "The Plumed Knight." Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899, Attorney General of Illinois (Republican), Presidential nomination speech, Republican National Convention, Cincinnati, OH, June 15, 1876
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This was the intellectual basis of the famous speech by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race—see related quote.
The line was a quotation from Chaucer.
Bart was unfamiliar with Court and his language lacked the refinement of the French Nobility. However he was the best naval officer in France and most French Nobles at the time could speak eloquently but could not do much else well.
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.
