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" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

" We have it in our power to begin the world over again. "

" Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. "

" He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. "

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

" When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. "

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

" That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. "

" 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. "

" Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. "

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

" Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. "

" We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. "

" 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. "

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

" Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. "

" A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. "