Virtue is not hereditary.
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness
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The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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