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" Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. "
Thomas Paine
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" It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. "
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