It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions. ✨ Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). Paine and Jefferson on Liberty, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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