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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the…
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Solitude begets whimsies.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being…
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