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«In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.»
«Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.»
«Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.»
«I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.»
«Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.»
«Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest»
«Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle»
«Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations»
«It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.»
«In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.»

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