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Princes may make laws and repeal them, but they can neither make nor destroy virtue, and how indeed should they be able to do what is impossible to the Deity himself? Virtue being as immutable in its nature as the divine will which is the ground of it.

— 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.

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