But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror
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I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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