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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Time makes more converts than reason.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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.
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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.
The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
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I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
