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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

To innovate is not to reform.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The march of the human mind is slow.