I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God....
The works of Robert G. Ingersoll (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1907) - ISBN: 9781465521330