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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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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
— Kate Atkinson
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First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes…
— Alexander Lebed
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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
— Richard Perle
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When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America;…
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We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.
— Panayiotis Zavos
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making…
— Ferdinand Mount
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There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.
— Aleksander Kwasniewski
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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win…
— James Earl Jones
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Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.
— Ted Nugent
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief…
— Thomas Paine
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Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
— Rick Perry
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I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
— Wesley Snipes
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