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- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great…
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
- I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the…
- The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which…
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love…
- A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
- Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
- Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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