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| Time makes more converts than reason. |
| Reason; Time |
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| Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. |
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| To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches |
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| 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. |
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| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. |
| Praise; Virtue |
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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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| We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. |
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| We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in |
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| We have it in our power to begin the world over again |
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| We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries |
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| We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known. |
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| What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. |
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| When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name |
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| When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. |
| Liberty; Thinking |
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| Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. |
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| [The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any. |
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