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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the ...more

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

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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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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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if the...more

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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.