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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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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our…
— Herbert Hoover
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and…
— Learned Hand
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance…
— Margaret Fuller
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
— Gustave Flaubert
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
— Thomas Paine
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of…
— Agnes Repplier
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The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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