The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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