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The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it… — Frederick Douglass
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these… — Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions… — Alexander Hamilton
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in… — Benjamin Franklin
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — Thomas Paine
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on… — Thomas Jefferson
As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some… — Miley Cyrus
I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers. — Magic Johnson
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the… — Victoria Woodhull
News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and)… — Rupert Murdoch
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to… — Dorothy Hamill
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to… — Ann Hood
I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not… — John Wayne
With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce… — Lisa Loeb
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that… — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. — John Updike
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he… — Asa Gray

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