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"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
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"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."
"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity."
"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman."
"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world."
"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."
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