There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.Thomas Paine
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms Through the land let the sound of it flee Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
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I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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