"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
-Thomas Paine
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.“
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
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"Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us."
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"One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests."
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"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
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"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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