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

Thomas Paine

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
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Hate Power Respect
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
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Authority Crime Police Rise Yourself
What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support

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

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