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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

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During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy

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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

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