It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.Thomas Paine
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
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Reason obeys itself and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it.
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If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person
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Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity And that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
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