The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity. 'To us,' a…
Permalink to quote #1 I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy wh…
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