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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 29th, 1737

Died: June 8th, 1809

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