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" One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. "

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" It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. "

" The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. "

" To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. "

" Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. "

" I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. "

" Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. "

" It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. "

" My mind is my own church. "

" Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. "

" Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. "

" When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. "

" Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. "

" The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. "

" There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. "

" The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. "

" The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. "

" It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. "

" The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. "

" He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. "

" 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. "

" All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. "

" Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. "

" Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it. "

" An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. "

" Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. "

" Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. "

" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

" I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. "

" That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. "

" Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. "