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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" '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. "

" My mind is my own church. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "

" It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

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" 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. "