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  • ... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal... More
  • ... every sapient prophecy with regard to America has been disproved. We were forewarned that she... More
  • ... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The... More
  • ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion... More
  • ... the condition of women affords, in all countries, the best criterion by which to judge the... More
  • ... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for... More
  • ... the hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any... More
  • ... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty... More
  • ... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the... More
  • ... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly... More
  • ... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry—tell you not to read certain books; not... More
  • How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts... More
  • I ... observed the great beauty of American government to be, that the simple machines of... More
  • If Jesus, or his likeness, should now visit the earth, what church of the many which now go by... More
  • If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all... More
  • It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far... More
  • It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem... More
  • Jesus would recommend you to pass the first day of the week rather otherwise than you pass it... More
  • Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where... More
  • Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By... More
  • Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet... More
  • Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a... More
  • Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. More
  • Religion ... may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and... More
  • So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants... More
  • The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is... More
  • The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also... More
  • The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. More
  • To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a... More
  • We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than... More

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