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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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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
— William Beveridge
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered…
— Giacomo Casanova
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended…
— Elbridge Gerry
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I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
— Thomas Paine
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving…
— John Calvin
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face…
— Wesley Morris
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