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Patrick Henry, To Know The Truth

By Steve Straub On June 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Patrick Henry

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? [...]

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Samuel Adams, Essay on Liberty, October 14, 1771

By Bill Bailey On August 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In History

“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”

ARTICLE SIGNED ” CANDIDUS.

[Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771.]

Messieurs EDES & GILL,

“Ambition saw that stooping Rome could bear A MASTER, nor had Virtue to be free.”

I Believe that [...]

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John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, Ch. 16, sec. 4 (1689)

By Steve Straub On May 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In John Locke

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men’s opinions?

The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, [...]

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