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To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.
The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.
The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.
Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.
The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.
Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.
The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.