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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.

Thomas Paine

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Power
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
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Act Constitution Government People Power Right
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
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Destruction Disguise Greatness Name Noble
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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Equality Opposition Place Right
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Administration Argument Atheist Authority Humanity Man Medicine Philosophy Reason Scripture
To take away voting is to reduce a man to slavery.
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Man Slave Vote
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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Country Freedom Government People Power Royalty
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
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Ability Error Illusion Man Responsibility
If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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Believe Evidence Myself Philosophy Yourself
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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Appearance Habit Right Thinking Wrong
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Administration Argument Death Medicine Person Reason
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
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Government Ignorance Nation Politics Support
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
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Enemy Fight Greatness Oneself Philosophy
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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Constitution Exercise Government Illegal Limitation Logic Natural Power Result
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
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Blessing Expectation Freedom Support
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
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Greatness Power Strength Unity

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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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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