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#1

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature

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#2

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#3

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#4

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#5

“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

[Adams submitted and signed the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797]”
― John Adams, Thoughts on government applicable to the present state of the American colonies.: Philadelphia, Printed by John Dunlap, M,DCC,LXXXVI.

tags: christian-nation, christian-religion, separation-of-church-and-state, united-states-government

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#6

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks

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#7

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
― George W. Bush

tags: bushism, dumb, foolishness, fools

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#8

“When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart.

{Letter to John Adams, from Monticello, 15 August 1820}”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: adams, angels, antoine-destutt-de-tracy, antoine-louis-claude-destutt, atheism, comte-de-tracy, creed, dugald-stewart, john-adams, john-locke, john-stewart-mill, locke, materialism, reason, stewart, tracy

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#9

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
― George W. Bush

tags: bushism

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#10

“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself.

[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: christian-sects, religious-violence, sects, torture

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#11

“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

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#12

“When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However [Dr. Rush] observed the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every article of their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice... I know that Gouverneur Morris, who pretended to be in his secrets & believed himself to be so, has often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system than he himself did.

{The Anas, February 1, 1800, written shortly after the death of first US president George Washington}”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Complete Anas of Thomas Jefferson

tags: clergy, disbelief, founding-fathers-religion, george-washington, gouverneur-morris, irreligious, morris, washington

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#13

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
― George W. Bush

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#14

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: politics

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#15

“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, September 3, 1816]”
― John Adams, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

tags: abuse, bloody, cross, grief, jefferson, priests, religious-violence, thomas-jefferson

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#16

“Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”
― George Washington

tags: encourage, freeman, superior

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#17

“Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.”
― George Washington, The Papers of George Washington: March-April 1778 (Volume 14)

tags: amicable-feelings, essential

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#18

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history

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#19

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
― James Madison

tags: patriot-act

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#20

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]”
― James Madison

tags: europe, history, organized-religion, politics, religion, separation-of-church-and-state

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#21

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
― James Madison

tags: political

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#22

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee

tags: freedom, law, taxes, welfare

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#23

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#24

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

tags: civilization, taxes

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#25

“Reading is the basics for all learning.”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb

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#26

“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”
― John Quincy Adams

tags: freedom, imperialism, independence, isolationism, liberty, noninterventionism, peace

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#27

“For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.”
― George W. Bush

tags: what

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#28

“Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.”
― Harvey Milk

tags: harvey-milk, lgbt-literature

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