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 all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

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There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

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