We may turn the public mind which way we will.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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