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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 have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they…
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we…
— Noam Chomsky
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I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
— Frans de Waal
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element…
— Fethullah Gulen
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Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really…
— Frans de Waal
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
— Bill Gates
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