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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. "

" Time makes more converts than reason. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. "

" My mind is my own church. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Human nature is not of itself vicious. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Character is much easier kept than recovered. "