Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
タグ: human, human-nature, government, nature
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
タグ: together, government, past, religion
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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