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" Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe? "

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" When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. "

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" The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. "

" I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. "

" Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. "

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" The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. "

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" But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. "

" In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head. "

" Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. "