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- I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of…
- No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to…
- The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction…
- The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire…
- Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
- Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
- Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so…
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