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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 incensing them to…
- Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live…
- When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared…
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the…
- A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a…
- The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a…
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which…
- It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas…
- When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
- The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the…
- There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something…
- Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a…
- These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time…
- The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
- As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no…
- In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never…
- I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and…
- Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the…
- And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,…
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind,…
- The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull…
- Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour