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"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."
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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."
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"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."
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"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"
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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"I dote on his very absence."
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"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."
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"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."
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"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."
Equality
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
War
"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third."
Faith
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
Act
"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
Nature
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
Government
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Law
"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
Religion
"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."
Society
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."
Religion
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