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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but thi...more

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

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My own mind is my own church.

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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

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When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

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But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of ado...more

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if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other’s religi...more

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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused of...more

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more t...more

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If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people ...more

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What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a m...more

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to anoth...more

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her cou...more

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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.