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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War

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