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- The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
- Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
- Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
- I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
- A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
- Wisdom is not the purchase of a day
- The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly...
- My country is wherever liberty lives.
- The birthday of a new world is at hand.
- Government is a necessary evil
- The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.
- What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
- Government is best which governs least
- Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
- The more we bestow the richer we become.
- A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power…
- The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
- Man must go back to nature for information.
- It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
- Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest…
- Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
- A government of our own is our natural right
- Kill the king but spare the man.
- Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
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