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- The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
- The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a…
- never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
- On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of…
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
- I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's…
- When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to…
- I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
- I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are…
- Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he…
- Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
- I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
- I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We…
- To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers…
- A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of…
- By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by…
- Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes…
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry…
- Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because,…
- Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that…
- Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.
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