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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but thi...more

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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My own mind is my own church.

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But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of ado...more

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if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other’s religi...more

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more t...more

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to anoth...more

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

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her cou...more

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If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. B...more

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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this...more

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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forger...more