“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
