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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.
• The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
• This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
• From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
• The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
• The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
• The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
• It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
• When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
• The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
• Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
• 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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