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The cause of America is in gre...

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

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Man did not enter society to b...

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

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Independence is my happiness, ...

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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Some writers have so confounde...

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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To argue with a man who has re...

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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Christianity is the strangest ...

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

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The age of ignorance commenced...

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

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Of all the tyrannies that effe...

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

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It is a faculty of the human m...

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

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A long habit of not thinking a...

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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It is with a pious fraud as wi...

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

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Let a crown be placed thereon,...

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

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When a man has so far corrupte...

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

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He is not affected by the real...

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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There is something in corrupti...

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

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A Democracy is the most vile f...

A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!

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The harder the conflict, the m...

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

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As priestcraft was always the ...

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.

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Now, which am I to believe, a ...

Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation itself which none but an Almighty Power could make? For the Bible says one thing; and the creation says the contrary. The Bible represents God with all the passions of a mortal, and the creation proclaims him with all the attributes of a God.

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The Christian church has set u...

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

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