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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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Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,…
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from…
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One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers…
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The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His…
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Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . .…
— Jefferson Davis
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The Old and New Testaments are the stick of Judah. You recollect that the tribe of Judah tarried in Jerusalem and the…
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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap…
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Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed…
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