I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIIIAdmit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall Into the hands of the democracy Into the hands of serfs and villains Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats....
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Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.
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Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion.... Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions.... The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.
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