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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Time makes more converts than reason.

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.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

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

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.