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Birthdate January 29, 1737

Zodiac Aquarius

Location Thetford, United Kingdom

Country England

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

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Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.

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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

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The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

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The world is my country,

all mankind are my brethren,

and to do good is my religion.

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

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