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The idea of a God we infer from our experimental dependence on something superior to ourselves in wisdom, power and goodness, which we call God; our senses discover to us the works of God which we call nature, and which is a manifest demonstration of his invisible essence.

— Ethan Allen Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784)

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Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.

The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it.

An unjust composition never fails to contain error and falsehood. Therefore an unjust connection of ideas is not derived from nature, but from the imperfect composition of man.

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It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy.

In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!

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