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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. – Ronald Reagan

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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really. – Lenny Bruce, “Religions Inc.”

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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. – John Locke

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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. – Douglas MacArthur

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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. – Joseph Addison

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