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Wallace in 1936 argued that liberty was impossible if “36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.”
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
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“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
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“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
― The American Crisis
― The American Crisis
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