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"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."
"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one."
"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things."
"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."
"Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us."
"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."
"That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable."
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