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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 believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
— Honore de Balzac
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and…
— Arthur Middleton
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked…
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How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that…
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the…
— Brennan Manning
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Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot…
— Henri Nouwen
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I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility…
— Thomas Jefferson
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