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

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" These are the times that try men's souls. "

" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

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

" 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. "

" What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. "

" There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. "

" 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. "

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

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

" But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. "

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

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

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

" The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. "

" 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 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. "

" My mind is my own church. "

" I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. "

" If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. "

" 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. "

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

" It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. "