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"God himself has no right to be a tyrant."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."
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