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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken, American journalist and writer (1880–1956)

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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire, French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)

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All men are born free: just not for long.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

It is wisdom that sets a man free. Nothing else.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

William Penn, English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)

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