The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others
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If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,Robert Ingersoll
But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired
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To hate man and worship god seems to be the sum of all the creeds
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Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of the race
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