"Jesus never instructed men to do what was……" — Lysander Spooner
"Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it."
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Lysander Spooner
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118 Quotes by Lysander Spooner
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply…
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not…
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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we…
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No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
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All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number…
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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever…
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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one…
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And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave,…
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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think…
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Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as…
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by…
— William Gurnall
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Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part…
— Benjamin Rush
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding…
— Thomas Aquinas
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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard,…
— Saint Augustine
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Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
— Clarice Lispector
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to…
— Rajneesh
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The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But…
— Thomas Jefferson
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