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"God himself has no right to be a tyrant."
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"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"
"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."
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"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"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."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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