Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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