The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more
importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the
country. -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President "Dissertation on the
Canon and the Feudal Law" (1765)
importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the
country. -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President "Dissertation on the
Canon and the Feudal Law" (1765)
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- The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out
of their church,
and all other religious sects approach this dreadful... - The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is
not true.
They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers... - My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office
that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter... - All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death
than the animals that know nothing.
Maurice... - The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern
the world by his own laws,
or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious... - The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the... - Example is a living law,
whose sway Men more than all the written laws obey... - All men profess honesty as long as they can.
To believe all men honest would be folly.
To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy... - Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President,
d. July 4,...
From the same category:
- The absolute truth is indestructible. Being indestructible,
it is eternal. Being eternal, it is self-existent... - What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?
dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must. -- Samuel... - Piety is sweet to infant minds.
--
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "The Excursion"... - No one has died an atheist. --
Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Bk. X,... - Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Voltaire (1694-1778) "PoŠme sur la vie naturelle"...
