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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…
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We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind…
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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses…
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we…
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I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,…
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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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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
— Aeschylus
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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over…
— Robert Boyle
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does…
— Saint Basil
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are…
— Ibn Hazm
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not…
— Tertullian
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