"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

Virtue, Planning, Posterity

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"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

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"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."

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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 adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted."

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"A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician."

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"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

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"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and Englandhath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare intime an asylum for mankind."

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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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"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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