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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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As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of…
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
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The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of…
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The true abstinent in this world is he whose tolerance is not overcome by the ill-gotten matters and whose gratitude is not…
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Be careful to earn money through wrong work If you are so , , your children are at risk, of ill-gotten food…
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