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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at…
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All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained…
— Arthur Machen
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content…
— Plato
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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied…
— Plato
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Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain…
— William Herschel
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I…
— Socrates
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Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion,…
— Giordano Bruno
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The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overt…
— Unknown Author
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