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“No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish”
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“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man”
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“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves”
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“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
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“The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason”
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“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities”
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“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one”
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“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
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“It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”
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“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
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“The law always limits every power it gives.”
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