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- Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
- Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live…
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
- Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
- Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it…
- As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
- I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is…
- One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently…
- Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
- But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men…
- As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It…
- When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
- The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
- One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty…
- It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are…
- We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed…
- It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
- There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those…
- If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,…
- We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude.…
- In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars;…
- When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was…
- One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently…
- But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from…
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