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the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all po...more

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All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and pa...more

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If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

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It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say o...more

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Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish min...more

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Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

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The purpose of the state is really freedom.

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He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, a...more