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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

"Justice is blind, but judges have eyes."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."

"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
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