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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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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then…
— Annie Besant
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in…
— Edmund Burke
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
— Herman Melville
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of…
— Lucretia Mott
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Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men…
— Anna Sewell
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Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
— Joseph James Ettor
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— C.S. Lewis
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been…
— Annie Besant
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride,…
— Charles de Gaulle
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