He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.


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Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it
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Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of de...
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of ...
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol...
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These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this cris...
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Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighb...
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests
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The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on...
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...
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Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...
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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...
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The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to t...
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Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...
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With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrecti...
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The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapte...
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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...
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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...
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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...
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Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou...
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People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
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He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
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As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
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The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
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When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
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Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
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It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
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But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...
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