Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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