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The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if ...more

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good hea...more

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stoo...more

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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.